{"id":57,"date":"2003-10-12T23:15:05","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T03:15:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-01T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T04:06:22","slug":"the-field-of-clover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/the-field-of-clover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Field of Clover"},"content":{"rendered":"

H. P. Barker<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in
\nour hearts” (2 Cor. 1:22). “Now He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing
\nis God, Who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit” (2 Cor. 5:5).
\n“….ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our
\ninheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His
\nglory” (Eph. 1:13,14).
\n
\nAs the “earnest” the Holy Spirit is given to us for our
\ncomfort and assurance. But there is more than this in the word translated
\n“earnest”. The Holy Spirit is the pledge that we will one day be put in
\npossession of the inheritance reserved in heaven for us. Hence some translations render
\nthe word “pledge, foretaste, installment”.<\/p>\n

It is like this. I am going on a voyage overseas, and I promise to take
\nmy boy, a lad of twelve, with me. For his enjoyment on board the ship I buy him a
\ntelescope, not a mere toy, but a serviceable instrument. The gift is an assurance to him
\non my part that I intend to take him on the voyage.<\/p>\n

But it is more than that. When the voyage is nearly ended word goes
\nround the ship that land is in sight. I can see nothing, but my boy, with his telescope to
\nhis eye, says he can see the hills quite clearly. Soon I can trace the outlines of the
\nhills, but my boy exclaims: “I can see the trees and some houses”. These things
\na little later can be just discerned by unaided sight, but he sings out: “Father, I
\ncan see the people down on the wharf”.<\/p>\n

The telescope give him a clearer vision of the land to which he is
\ngoing. It enables him to get glimpses of it before he arrives. That is what the Holy
\nSpirit as the “earnest” does for us. He gives us a keener spiritual vision; He
\nbrings within the arena of present enjoyment the great things that constitute our eternal
\ninheritance. He enables us already, as it were, to breathe the atmosphere of heaven, and
\nto gain acquaintance with what is there.<\/p>\n

I remember hearing, when quite a youth, an address on this subject by
\nGeorge Cutting. He pictured a farmer buying some sheep at a market, and entrusting them to
\nhis man to take them safely home. “Turn them into the enclosure by the barn, John,
\nand cut a few armfuls of that sweet clover from the field behind the house, and put them
\ninto the enclosure for the sheep to feed on this evening. Tomorrow, we will turn them out
\ninto the field itself.”<\/p>\n

Does not this exactly describe the situation? We are the sheep that
\nhave been purchased and entrusted to the care of the Holy Spirit to be conducted home. In
\nthe glorious by-and-by for which we wait, we are going to be turned into a wonderful field
\nof clover, so to speak. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit, as the “earnest” of the
\ninheritance, gives us tastes of that sweet clover. Things which will be actually ours when
\nwe get to heaven are made real to us now.<\/p>\n

Let us,then, do something more than continually thank God that He has given us the
\n“earnest.” The Holy Spirit opens to us the garden of God?s delights. Let us
\nwalk through the length and breadth thereof. By faith we know that all is ours; by the
\npower of the Spirit we appropriate and enjoy it; a different thing altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H. P. 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