Feb. 13

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

BLESSED IN THE FIELD

   "Blessed shalt thou be in the field" Deut. 28:3

   So was Isaac blessed when he walked therein at eventide to meditate.
   How often has the Lord met us when we have been alone! The hedges and
   the trees can bear witness to our joy. We look for such blessedness
   again.

   So was Boaz blessed when he reaped his harvest, and his workmen met him
   with benedictions. May the Lord prosper all who drive the plough! Every
   farmer may urge this promise with God, if indeed he obeys the voice of
   the Lord God.

   We go to the field to labor as father Adam did; and since the curse
   fell on the soil through the sin of Adam the first, it is a great
   comfort to find a blessing through Adam the second.

   We go to the field for exercise, and we are happy in the belief that
   the Lord will bless that exercise, and give us health, which we will
   use to His glory.

   We go to the field to study nature, and there is nothing in a knowledge
   of the visible creation which may not be sanctified to the highest uses
   by the divine benediction.

   We have at last to go to the field to bury our dead; yea, others will
   in their turn take us to God's acre in the field: but we are blessed,
   whether weeping at the tomb, or sleeping in it.