I’m pretty sure many of you have heard the phrase, “You reap what you sow.” It comes from the scripture in Galatians 6:7 where we are told, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” If you don’t see yourself as a farmer, you ought to look again. There is not much in life you can get without first having to give something.
There is no greater example of this than Jesus Himself. He had to give up His life so He could have your life. Not much worth having can be had without us first giving something of equal or greater worth. The most blessed of us understand this principle. God wants us to understand that we should be intentional about sowing and reaping.
So, why are some people more blessed in what they reap than we are? Well, it’s because most of us grow up thinking only about what we want to harvest in life. We give very little thought to what we must sow to produce what we want to reap. Sowing is boring work and hard work. But harvesting is the valued work we do for something we want and value.
There are others who think differently. Instead of thinking of the harvest first, they think more seasonally. Seasonal thinking causes lets them consider what they should be giving to produce the things they want to harvest. Seasonal thinking causes them to value what they give so that they will harvest something of value in return.
As believers we should be seasonal thinkers. Harvesting is a by product of sowing. You cannot have a harvest without first having sown something. Believers don’t live out their lives thinking they can harvest from what someone else has planted.
In springtime, we should sow our seeds for the crops we hope to harvest later. If we want to harvest deep relationships, we must sow into others the things they will value and appreciate from us. And as we sow, we will nurture and water and fertilize what we want so that that it will produce what we expect.
Summer and fall are the times of our greatest harvest. But to have that great harvest we must sow into others the seeds or the things that can tolerate the unpredictable changes in the weather. We don’t sow a spring crop in the dead of summer or that crop will surely die. There will be no harvest.
Winter is the time of minimal harvest. But to have any winter harvest at all, the believer must learn to sow a hearty seed, one that can germinate and then grow when the days are short, the light is short, and the temps are low.
This is seasonal thinking; it is thinking that produces more than thinking of harvests. I know you all are not farmers. But you are all alive, and the essence of living is found in what we produce in life to sustain our lives and help to sustain the lives of others around us. So, learn to think and live more seasonally and chase less after a great harvest.
As a believer, ask yourself this question. What have you produced in your life? To answer this question, you will have to consider what things you have sown. If you have not sown anything of value, you should not expect to reap anything of value.
Let this be the day you start to live a life of sowing. The more you sow, the more you will reap. Let this be the day you start sowing in your own field, so you do not look to reap from someone else’s work.
Let this be the day you start living like you are producing something more than you are looking to reap something.
The Lord will honor your life and work when you live this way. Let this be the day you start to live to give from what you have produced.
Let this be the day you start to think and to live seasonally. Seasonal thinking is what God blesses more than anything. A great harvest awaits you when as a believer you think like a farmer and sow the things in life others will value.
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