Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11
"Furthermore, beloved, we have heard of heavenly harvests, the outflowing
of the upper springs, which, in days of yore, awakened the Church of
God to loudest praise.
There was the harvest of Pentecost.
Christ having
been sown in the ground like a grain of wheat, sprang up from it, and
in his resurrection and ascension was like the waved sheaf before the
Lord.
Let us never forget that resurrection which crowned the year of
God’s redeemed with goodness.
It was a terrible year indeed; it began in the howling tempests of
Christ’s poverty, and want, and shame, and suffering, and death; it
seemed to have no spring and no summer, but yet it was crowned with an
abundant harvest when Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
Fifty days after
the resurrection came the Pentecost. The barley-harvest had been passed
wherein the wave-sheaf was offered; then came the days of wheat-harvest.
---Peter, and the eleven that were with him, became the reapers, and three
thousand souls fell beneath the gospel sickle;
It is recorded that the saints ate their bread with
gladness and singleness of heart, praising God.
Pentecost was a crowning
mercy, and it was remembered by the saints with crowning thanks."
Charles Spurgeon