“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will.” (Ecclesiastes 11:6, CEV)
Everything in your life starts as a seed. There are many kinds of seeds — beautiful seeds like kindness, love, faith, and integrity. And then there are uglier seeds, like gossip and greed. But there are two things all seeds have in common. First, all seeds need time to grow. And second, you harvest whatever you have sown.
Think about literal, physical seeds. When you plant a seed in the ground, there is always a waiting time between planting and harvesting. You sow in one season, and you reap in another season. You don’t plant tomato seeds and pick a tomato an hour later. You have to wait.
It’s the same way in your life. Maybe you’ve planted seeds of kindness in a relationship. You don’t necessarily reap kindness immediately. You have to plant the seeds, trust God to grow them, and then wait.
Ecclesiastes says, “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. … a time to plant and a time to harvest … a time to scatter … and a time to gather” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 5, NLT).
Once the seeds have grown and are ready to harvest, you can trust that you will gather what you have sown.
If you plant seeds of gossip, the people in your life will likely gossip about you too. But if you plant seeds of kindness, people will be kind to you in return. If you plant seeds of faith, you will experience faithfulness.
So what do you do while you’re waiting on God — after you’ve planted seeds and are waiting on them to be ready to harvest? You keep sowing the kind of seeds you want to reap.
The Living Bible paraphrase says, “Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will” (Ecclesiastes 11:6).
Have you been waiting a long time for the harvest in your life? Let me give you a verse to encourage you. In Habakkuk 2, God says, “At the time I have decided, My words will come true. You can trust what I say about the future. It may take a long time, but keep on waiting — it will happen!” (Habakkuk 2:3, CEV).
The harvest may be slow in coming, but God says that, at the right time, it will. Keep waiting, trusting God, and sowing good seeds in your life. God will grow your seeds, and one day you will reap a harvest.
Whose seeds are being sown by you? Satan or Jesus. What does the product of each look like in the world today?
Galatians 6:7-9 says, “Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap, because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.”
Prayer
Father, as I walk on Your path this day, let me sow seeds of love, kindness and understanding to everyone I meet. According to Your will, let those seeds be faithful and multiply, allowing Your Word to spread out among the nations.
Stay encouraged!
Pastor Mike
