Plant and patience

Ecclesiastes 3:1
1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:

Now that the ground has been worked, and the stones removed it is the time to plant the seeds…..then the hardest part of all the time to wait. Planting the seeds weather in the fields of the farm or the fields of our spirit, are much the same. The farmer has sacks of seeds, and each of us has the same. Oh our seeds might not be as obvious as the farmers, but they are there. Our seeds are our time, our talents, how we treat others, how we treat ourselves, and how we spend our money, just to name a few.

The farmer goes our and drops his seeds into the ground and covers them. He knows what he is planting, but we make the choice on what we plant. Each of us goes out in to the world, and how we sow our seeds will greatly determine what we will harvest. Are you spending all of your time on yourself? What do you see when you open your check book? Are your funds going to material things, with very little spent on things that would advance the word of God? How do you treat others, are you short, never spending the time on anyone to nurture that friendship, unless it benefits you, and your ideals? If you want to harvest love, peace, prosperity, generosity, hope, and faith, then that is what you have to sow. As Christ told us, an olive will not come from a thorn bush. Much the same hate will not breed love, greed will not breed generosity, and denial, will not breed faith. You have to set out each day and go about planting your seeds. You have to plant them knowing that you will have to wait…..and that is the hard part of this season. The waiting. You have to plant your seeds fearlessly and in faith. The farmer does not plant his seeds then worry day and night if they will take root. He is not a worry wart. He has faith, faith that his hard work he put in will be rewarded. This is how we must wait. We have to wait in faith. We cannot plant then expect something to immediately happen. Just like that farmer we have to wait. We have to have faith that God is working on our behalf. We have to have faith that even though we planted the seed and put the work in, God will provide the water needed to make that seed sprout…..and he will! If you will put in the effort, God will show you his abundance! He will use the bad things in your life for the good, He will see the seeds you have planted, and while you wait in faith, He will provide the life giving water to make the seeds grow.

Peace,
Brian