Devo: "Sowing the Seed of God's"

Sowing the Seed of God’s

“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest...” (Genesis 8:22)

        When we understand what and how our God is at work in our lives, we can participate with Him. One of the things God declared how He is working in our lives is the process of seedtime and harvest, or in other words, sowing and reaping.

       In this life, God is working to provide us with the seeds of life; we plant the seeds (seedtime); God causes the seeds to grow; we harvest the fruit of the seed that has been planted. It is a beautiful cycle of participating with God.

        If farmer does not plant the seeds he or she has been given, there is no way the farmer can expect to eat the fruit of a harvest. In the same manner, if we do not take the seeds of life and plant them, we cannot expect to receive a harvest of eternal life. Remember, eternal life is both quantity and quality of life.

        One of the seeds God has given us in order to receive a harvest of life is the Word of God. “…for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.” (1 Peter 1:23) If we do not plant the seed of the Good News of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ into our hearts, we will not receive a harvest of being born again unto eternal life.

Planting the Word of God into our hearts and minds does not end with being born again. Being born again is just the beginning of planting and harvesting the fruit of the Word of God. Planting the rhema Word of God in our hearts illuminates our faith (Romans 10:17). God tells us planting the Word of His grace into our hearts builds us up and gives us an inheritance (Acts 20:32). The planted Word of God thoroughly equips us for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16). When we have the Word of God planted in our hearts, we can judge the thoughts and the intentions of our hearts (Hebrews 4:16). The Word of God planted in our hearts enables us to prosper in whatever we do (Psalm 1:2-3). I could go on and on talking about the different types of harvest we can receive when we plant the Word of God into our lives.

        God is calling us to take the seed of His Word and plant it into our hearts. He promises us He will cause the seed we plant in our lives to grow, as long as we keep the weeds of contradictory thoughts, out of the gardens of our hearts and minds. Then He will invite us to harvest and enjoy the fruit of the implanted Word of God (1 Thessalonians 2:13).

        God tells us in Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” Whatever we sow we will reap. If we sow nothing, we will reap nothing. If we sow the spiritual seed of God’s Word, He promises us, we can reap of the many beautiful and glorious facets of the fruit of eternal life.