“Ye are God’s husbandry.” 1 Corinthians 3:9
The natural trend of things in this fallen world is always
away from God. Suppose we take so apparently innocent a matter as agriculture.
No one would suggest that in Eden
But as soon as it was let go from under the hand of God,
thistles grew. Man was condemned to an endless round of drudgery and
disappointment, and an element of perversity marked the fruit of his toil. “Cursed
is the ground for thy sake.”
The deliverance of Noah was God’s great movement of
recovery, in which the earth was given a fresh start. But how swift, how tragic
was man’s reversion. “Noah began to be a husbandman . . . and he drank of the
wine and was drunken.”
How different is the Church, God’s husbandry! Through the
grace of God she possesses an inherent life-power capable, if she responds to
it, of keeping her constantly moving Godward, or of recalling her Godward if
she strays.
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