09/03/2026
You just never know what's going to come out of your garden each year. One year the carrots are plentiful, the next they won't germinate at all. The corn will fill wheelbarrows one year, then underperform the next. Maybe the only exception is zucchini - it seems to over produce no matter what!
In 2001, like in every September, our garden was ripe for harvest. And until you start turning leaves over in the cucumber patch, you won't know for sure how many cucumbers are out there! This faithful Poulan Pro (which is still in the family), pulled in a great harvest that year (brothers, Chris and Sean in photo). Farmers know this more than anyone, there's a lot of work (and cost) that occurs prior to harvest. Seeding, weeding, watering, and waiting.
It can feel as if there's a lot of risk hoping that a seed will lead to a harvest. But here's what's certain, if you do not sow, you will not reap. So what are you sowing in your life? Not sure? Then look at the harvest in your life: is it love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control? Or something else? Maybe anxiety, stress, discouragement?
The Bible teaches a simple but profound principle, we reap what we sow. Paul writes in the Book of Galatians in the New Testament, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life." Whatever fruit is coming forth in your life, ask the Holy Spirit what was planted to have that yield in your life.
My prayer for you and for myself today is that we would be people that put good seed in the ground now. That our words, our habits, our attitudes, would be seeds that please the Holy Spirit that in time, we will reap eternal life.
