Sowing For A Harvest
I was up early one morning in my office sitting with God and writing when the sun came in. The way its light poured into my office highlighted the words on the two of the cards that I had in my bookcase. One said “seed and harvest” and the other said “believe”. I immediately felt like I needed to take a picture and use it in a devotional but I was not sure which one.
When I sat for a moment after taking the picture I thought, “This is exactly it!” There is always a time for sowing seeds and a time to harvest but we have to believe in the harvest. If we stop believing, we will stop doing the work. Even when the harvest is sitting right in our laps, we will never receive it because we stopped.
My husband has a friend that he worked with for many years and he always told my husband that he was in college to be a doctor. He is very knowledgeable about medical issues but he is not a doctor because somewhere along the way he stopped. He still has the harvest sitting in his lap but he stopped watering the plant, so the plant couldn’t produce the harvest. He talks about it because the substance of the plant is still in him.
The Bible says as long as the earth remains there will be seedtime and harvest time (Genesis 8:22). We can have confidence in this word because we can see it happening. Here is an example: no one has ever had to plant a weed because God divinely put weeds in the earth (Genesis 3:18). No matter what season, the weeds might die but their seeds always end up in the ground and they always produce a harvest!
Our job is to just continue to believe God in all that He has called us to do. I know that when we are working and not seeing any positive results it can be so easy to give up and lose hope! God never told us it would be easy, but He said He would never leave us. He promised the Israelites that He would bring them out of slavery and into a land flowing with milk and honey. God gave them exactly what He had promised but they had to work with Him and believe. Those individuals who left Egypt with Moses 20 years and older died before they could get the harvest because they did not believe. Even when we grow weary and start to doubt we can pray, “God help my unbelief so I can continue to work with you and see this harvest!” Amen!
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My recently published book Life’s Journey is now available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VYJKJ9K/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6Z95ANB487AMDF3VTDP9Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
You can also follow me at JCCMinistriestv:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMoEcr3koSqRbqVma5EGWgA/videos
My recently published book Life’s Journey is now available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VYJKJ9K/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6Z95ANB487AMDF3VTDP9
