Thursday, May 26, 2016

"When I have more money I'm going to be a big giver"

Silly rabbit. You reap after you sow, not before.

If you think,  it will never happen. You're going to be very disappointed. You can't reap before you sow. This is a principle God has woven into the natural order of things.

Before there could ever be a harvest, there must be the sowing time. Jesus affirmed this when He said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seeds sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the Earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts it in the sickle, because the Harvest has come" Mark 4:26-29

Imagine that same farmer standing in the field waiting for a crop to come in when he has never planted a seed. "Once this crop comes up I'm going to do some serious seed sowing," he says confidently. "I'll be a big time sower if I ever get this crop to come in."

Silly silly silly.

What you reap you will sow.
Sow corn, reap corn. Sow wheat, reap wheat. Sow money, reap money.
This is not Prosperity Gospel. This is Scriptural.

Give without expectation, out of obedience, because you have been blessed with seed to sow. Then trust in the promise that God will bless that obedience.

Thoughts paraphrased from The Blessed Life daily devotional by Robert Morris.

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