Blessed shalt thou be in the field. (Deuternomy 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 hear witness to our job. 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 plow! 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, who is our Lord and the Christ Jesus.
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 glor.
We go to the field to study nature, and there is nothing ina 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; yes, 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, for we have given ourselves to Jesus our Christ, and by giving our life decisions to Him we gain eternal happiness in His Paradise.
Amen.
