“Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.”
Fallow ground refers to the unused resources in our lives, the ones that have lain dormant, or have been used to produce things that are not fruitful. We know when this happens because we feel that there is something missing and there is a sense of futility. It’s not a good feeling when we waste our time on goals that do not bear results, or if they do bear results, we find in the long run that they weren’t what we really needed or what we were really after. I remember when I graduated high school I went straight into studying for a law degree. It was an appalling failure and I dropped out after two semesters, so I’d effectively wasted a whole year going after something that was not going to work out. I had nothing to show for my time.
Sometimes it takes a bitter episode like this to realise that we may have been wasting our time, and that it’s high time to break the fallow ground, to go to that field that has been left without care or attention. The field is our relationship to God. We are told to seek God, not those goals and ambitions that will leave us feeling empty at the end. Material pursuits and the scrabbling for wealth, position or prestige, and the thousand and one desires that we think will make us happy keep us from doing what’s necessary to attain permanent joy and fulfillment. If we set our sights on God and make ourselves right with him, if we break the fallow ground and plant the seeds of righteousness, we will reap the steadfast love of our Lord. Seek God and he will rain down his grace upon you, and you will never want for anything again.
Tell Out My Soul 
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