God's Wisdom In A Nutshell

Hello,

Today I’d like to talk to you about God’s law of sowing and reaping, a system mentioned in Scripture, from Genesis through the Gospels. Sowing is followed by time or a waiting period and then a harvest. Sometimes the harvest is quick and sometimes it takes years.

These are the main categories of seeds we can plant with our life:

1. Our good, bad and indifferent actions, words and thoughts:

If we sow seeds of kindness, kindness will find us. If we sow seeds to our church in the way of tithes, we will always have more than enough to live on. If we sow seeds of ignoring others, we will harvest poor relationships with those we ignore. We can sow seeds that look like good seeds- time at work- but turn them into seeds that harvest in only one area of our life-financial. The best “farming” we can do is to sow seeds in all categories of our life- God first, family second and work third. Everything else is secondary.  God outlines in His Word that love is the highest commandment, so if we sow seeds of love to God by bringing Him into our daily life through prayer and bible study we will be fulfilling part of that commandment. If we then sow seeds of love- spelled T.I.M.E. with our family members we will have fulfilled the second half of that commandment.

2. The Word of God spoken out of our mouths is the next category of seeds we can plant.

“As the rain and the snow
    come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
    without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
    so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
    It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”(Isaiah 55:10-11)

God’s Word is a seed and our best life will include taking time to memorize Scripture. If we encounter a situation and we are fearful we must be able to pull up Scripture into our mind to fight against evil. For instance, if we are up against evil, we can personalize this verse to say:.

“but in that coming day, no weapon formed against me will prosper; and every tongue that accuses me in judgment I will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, my vindication will come from God!”(Isaiah 54:17)

It is so important to reflect on our life. We need to observe the results of our negative conduct and whether or not it came back to produce the same kind of negativity in our life. Self reflection in order to grow into a more righteous and Christlike person is always time well spent. It is also important that we spend time in God’s Word- the Bible. It is a living book- meaning the Words of the Lord aren’t simply words that He spoke 2000 years ago, they are living Words- they are seeds that anyone can use to produce a harvest in their own life. The Bible contains verses that help in time of grief, poverty, sickness, loneliness, addictions, evil, distraction, stress, EVERYTHING! If we start to read the Word of God and believe the Words that Jesus spoke, we can take them and use them as our own words and produce the desired effect.

“Heaven and Earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”(Matt 24:35)

God’s Word never dies, it is a seed and it will always produce it’s intended effect if the soil in the heart of the person speaking them is soft and fertile. The soil of our heart becomes fertile if we take God’s Word out of our mind and let it sink into our heart, believing what we have read.

Think about it this way, if we want to put some authority behind our words we often quote an important person, a prestigious University or a noteworthy study and perhaps say something like:

“A study out of Harvard University said….”  

How much more should we quote Scripture! If God said it, I believe it and I am going to quote it and confess it!

“But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop–a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”(Matt 13:23)

Let’s sow seeds into our life that are going to give us a future harvest of good and plenty. I don’t want to end up in a nursing home one day wishing I would have invested more time in other people or had been kinder to family, friends and coworkers. I would like to end my life surrounded by the people I poured my love into. How about you?

Food For Thought,

Lisa