“Give, and it shall be given unto you,” – Luk 6:38
A terrible thing a farmer can do to his
planted seed is to dig it up every morning to “see how far it’s growing”. That
seed will never grow, and indeed will die soon enough. This is also true of
spiritual seeds that we plant.
In the Parable of the Growing Seed (Mk
4:26-29) our Lord says “the kingdom of God is like seed thrown on a field by a
man who then goes to bed and forgets about it.
“The seed sprouts and grows – he has no idea
how it happens. The earth does it all without his help... As soon as the grain
is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”
Oftentimes, we’re tempted to worry about the
results of the ‘seeds’ we have planted over the years: offerings, hospitality,
sacrifices, Kingdom services, etc. But that said worry is tantamount to digging
up your seed every morning.
The singular act of the “Shunamite Woman”
taking it upon herself to bless Elisha the Prophet constituted a spiritual seed
that went into the ground.
But notice that she didn’t determine what the
fruit of the ‘seed’ was. 1Cor 15:38 says God gives each seed its own proper
body, (GNB). When we try to determine the fruit of our seeds, we place a limit
to what God can do with it.
But see the Shunamite Woman; even after she and
Elisha had parted ways, and it seemed she had reaped all the fruits of her
labours, her seed kept speaking for her. She received a forewarning about a
famine and when she returned seven years later, she had all her lost properties
returned to her just because God caused her to be at the right place, at the
right time, (2Kgs 8:5,56).
You don’t have to worry over the seeds you’ve
sown over the years; in Lk 10:2 Jesus called God “The Lord of the Harvest”; and
Paul says God’s the One who gives the increase to anything sown (1Co 3:7). Like
Paul admonished in Gal 6:9, let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not. For God is not unrighteous to forget
your work and labour of love, which you have showed toward his name, (Heb
6:10).
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not
miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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