5 Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Life requires our having the soil of our lives broken up again and again, one season after another.
What was fertile ground in one season gets hard and compacted over time. Stagnancy sets in. The natural organic process slows almost to a point of ceasing.
So the Farmer brings the hoe. He breaks into the ground, turns it over, unsettles and moves it around. The tilling and plowing disrupts everything and awakens what was thought to be dead. The Farmer knows there is life in the earth; the tilling brings it back to life.
Being plowed over by life unsettles us. What was settled gets unsettled. What was terra firma suddenly gets turned over topsy turvy. We probably don't like it very much. We wouldn't choose it. But this is how the Farmer works on us.
This is how God gets us ready.
~Ryon Price, 2nd Thoughts
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