THE WEIGHT OF THE EARTH | O PESO DA TERRA

There was a child playing with her father on a swing in the field. The swing was set in a strong tree, yet planted in a very dry land.

That was the only tree in the whole horizon, when a man carrying a seed was passing by. Right away the Father noticed the man and lifted up the soil so the seed could be placed underneath it, which the man carrying the seed did immediately, yet the man could feel the weight of that land hitting his fingertip and he instantly knew he would never be able to lift it up by himself.

Moral of the story: there are weights in life that only God’s hands can carry for us. The amount of land that needed to be lift up in order to sow the seed no human hand could ever do it, but the Father entrusted us (sowers) to put the seeds in desolate lands where Himself leads us.
The sower could feel the weight of the earth only at his fingertips, a weight that none of us could carry, and that was exactly the weight Jesus carried for me and you.

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Havia uma criança que brincava com seu pai, em um balanço no campo. O balanço estava firmado em uma árvore forte, contudo plantada em uma terra muito árida.

Moral da história: há pesos na vida que somente a mão de Deus pode levar por nós. A quantidade de terra que precisou ser erguida para que a semente fosse posicionada nenhuma mão humana seria capaz de erguer, mas o Pai confiou a nós (semeadores) colocarmos as sementes em terras assoladas aonde Ele mesmo nos leva.
O semeador pôde sentir o peso da terra somente na ponta dos seus dedos, um peso que nenhum de nós poderia suportar, e este foi exatamente o peso que Jesus suportou no meu e no teu lugar.

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