Two farmers, one a novice and the other seasoned, are visiting over coffee early one morning at the local diner. The novice farmer, visibly shaken and frustrated, is complaining to the seasoned farmer about his recent harvest. The novice farmer is irate that his field has produced green beans. On and on he belly aches about how his worthless field produced nothing but green beans. Green beans everywhere.
Finally getting a word in, the seasoned farmer asks the novice farmer, "what were you wanting you grow?" "Corn, I wanted corn!" the novice farmer exclaims. The seasoned farmer graps his coffee of cup, leans back, takes a sip and then simply asks the novice farmer, "if you wanted corn, why did you plant green bean seed?"
HONESTY CHECK...ever find yourself wanting to harvest something you didn't sow???
Wanting love, sowing anger. Wanting financial peace, sowing debt. Wanting a stronger family, sowing work. Wanting spiritual vitality, sowing sin. Wanting honesty, sowing white lies. Wanting respect, sowing gossip. Wanting God's blessings, sowing disobedience
God's Word teaches us an invaluable principle in Galatians 5:7 "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows"
Green bean seed produces green beans. Corn seed produces corn. That is the way life works. God set it up that way. He also set up His Kingdom in the same way.
I cannot tell you how much time I spend visiting with people who want to continue to sow green bean seed and somehow magically harvest corn. Whatever you sow you will reap. Whatever relational decisions, financial decisions, family decisions, life decisions, spritual decisions you sow you will reap.
How silly the noivce farmer was to be so mad and irate about not harvesting corn. Honestly, if it was a true story we would consider him crazy! How many Christians do you know that are mad, even at God, about their harvest despite the seed they sowed! Isn't that just as crazy???
Likewise, don't you think it is funny for Christians to sing about, pray about, believe "by faith" every week about reaping a harvest of corn when they are planting green bean seed in their life???? Isn't that crazy??? I think it is.
If I want corn, I have to plant corn. The most spiritual thing I can usually do in my life is simply change the seed I am sowing!
What kind of things does God say we should plant in our life? Probably most important is the Fruit of the Spirit listed in Galations 5:22 "but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control."
I don't know about you but I would LOVE to have a HUGE harvest of these things in my life and my family. I guess I better get sowing seed...what about you???
Just don't forget to sow the right kind of seed!
Blessings,
Darren
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