Sowing Seeds

I love how God uses “seeds” and “planting” in the Bible to paint a visual for us so that we fully understand the concept of harvest and reaping. Our actions and thoughts ARE like seeds. Think about how our mind and life are like soil. Fertile or not, that thought or action is going to be dropped down  to either grow or wither and die. Same goes for seeds we drop down into another’s soil. We’ve got to make sure we’re sowing good seeds all across the board in order to grow a good life. And just like gardens in our own yards it takes time for seeds to grow. How great it would be if we could go sprinkle zinnia seeds out in the garden and they spring forth flowers instantly. But that’s not the way it works. Seeds get sown, then watered, then they poke up through the soil, grow more, and before you know it you will see it bloom. Oh you’ll have to tend to the weeds to keep it from being choked out and dying but once it gets rooted in fertile soil, it’s on its way to harvest time. Just like in our own lives, the harvest will come in due time. It’s all in how you tend your garden ❤️

The Bible tells us that whatever we sow we shall also reap.  We don’t normally get that until we’ve sown some seeds that have gotten us into trouble.  Galatians 6:7-8 tells us “Do not be deceived.  God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that will also reap.  For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”  It makes so much sense.  If only we could wrap our brains around it.  I absolutely love the way God puts things in layman’s terms so that  we might have a clearer vision of just exactly what he wants us to do.   In just about EVERY book in the Bible you will find sowing and reaping.  Why…because it’s the natural law of the land.   I love Proverbs 10:5, “He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely, But he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.”  I know a few people who definitely slept through harvest and I am most certain that they wished they hadn’t.

When you take the time to really understand what the meaning is behind sowing seeds then you understand that God’s talking about making your life and other’s lives better by not only your words but your actions.  We have the power, because God gave us that power, to use our lives to do good things.  With his help and guidance we can grow gardens in people’s souls simply by a kindness set forth in motion from each other to one another.   Seeds of love and seeds of faith planted in fertile hearts will grow into the sweetest fruits to be enjoyed by everyone that partakes.  We are sowers of the Word and we are ambassadors of Christ which in a nutshell and how is pertains to my blog, is that we all have different roles in the grand scheme of things.  Some of us are sowers, or seed scatterers.  Some of us are the reapers.  Some of us are around during the harvest.  All of us are important and all of us have a part to play in this well orchestrated plan.  God, however, will do the watering while we, worker bees, patiently wait for the signs of what to do next.  Listen and he will direct your next move.

I’d like to close with one of my favorite scriptures on this subject:

Mark 4:14-20 says, “The sower sows the word. “These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. “In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;  and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. “And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. “And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.’

Sow good seeds and a harvest of love, faith, and peace will be the firstfruits in the hearts of others.

Have a blessed day!

Kelly 🙂