5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
The most difficult place to keep moving in faith is the place of extreme pain. Extreme pain, especially emotional pain, can become immobilizing to the human spirit if it is allowed to overcome us. The psalmist tells us there is only one remedy for overcoming painful circumstances that will result in joy. We are to sow in the midst of these times. You cannot do this if you live by feelings alone. It is an act of the will. This act requires that we go outside ourselves in pure faith.
Learn this principle during the deepest periods of life when you lose much in your life that is dear to you. Reach out to others in spite of your own pain. Invest in someone else. You do not realize what a place of healing and comfort that will become.
Pain can become a source of joy if we take the first step by planting seed. There is a harvest that will come if we sow in the midst of tears.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
