Bringing in the Sheaves

Psalm 126:6

I. A Time of Weeping:

a. There are times in life when you must walk through seasons of tears and personal heartache, and anybody who has been a Christian for any length of time knows this. The New Testament tells us we can’t comfort anyone else if God has not first comforted us in our own times of weeping. Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:12, “He is able to keep that which I have entrusted to him against that day.”

b. Paul knew seasons of sorrow, and extraordinary trials that would overwhelm even the most confident and strong among us. But Paul had a confidence in God, so God was able to take him through stoning, through shipwreck, through times of famine and hunger, loss, imprisonment, loneliness, and sorrow. Even though there were innumerable tears. (2 Corinthians 1:8-9) Paul knew pain and sorrow, and because of it, this incredible revelation of Christ was given to him that strengthened him.

II. A Season of Waiting:

a. Joseph was 17 when he was betrayed, and for 13 years he was in a place of weeping. While working in Potiphar’s house as a servant, he is again betrayed and placed in prison. There he shows kindness to one of Pharaoh’s servants in prison and said please don’t forget me when you get out, and the servant promised he wouldn’t, but he did. Joseph is beginning to move in the flesh. He trusted God at first, but now was trying to deliver himself. That’s why God caused the baker to forget him.

b. All Joseph had left after his overwhelming despair was the vision God had given him years ago that he was going to rule and reign and oversee incredible provision. That precious seed was all he had to hold on to! Suddenly one day a call came to the prison cell, “Change your clothes; shave your face; get ready—the king has called for you!” When God calls you out, He will put in your hands the keys of provision and will give you wisdom that people of this world know nothing about, and you will have a storehouse of supply of God’s power within you to feed a starving generation in a time of famine.

III. A Harvest of Worship:

a. In Psalm 126, the psalmist is saying that the time of captivity was over. This psalm is about a people who had been in captivity because of spiritual neglect and a casual attitude in seeking and obeying God. They went into captivity weeping. The precious seed they bore were the promises God had made to them as His people, and that’s all they had left.

b. Right now, you may be in a season of weeping or a time of difficulty. But God has given you His precious promises, and these promises are as true as He is true, so even if you have failed or had a casual attitude toward Him, His Word to you and His promises to you are still there and if you turn to Him, you will come out, reaping the harvest of the goodness of God, and singing songs of joy into the Lord!