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Noah and God’s promise of seed time and harvest
Noah and his family have been in the Ark and now the waters have receded.
His family has left the ark with the animals following.
Noah goes on to build an altar to the Lord and presents his offering to God.
God is pleased and offers Noah and us this promise in Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
God in this verse tells us that the principles of seedtime and harvest are as certain as summer and winter, day and night, the ground you are standing on.
This concept of seedtime and harvest is as certain as summer and winter, day and night, the ground you are standing on.
The Bible uses the analogy of agriculture to help us understand the principles of seedtime and harvest.
Getting the garden ready and planting seeds
Any of you ever planted a garden or perhaps still do?
I remember when me and Debra planted our first Garden.
Debra grew up gardening, I snapped beans and helped shuck corn that my mother would buy at the farmers market but gardening not so much.
So when we decide that planting a garden was something we wanted to do, I came inexperienced but excited to grow my first garden, our’s as a couple.
Our backyard was fairly flat so picking a spot was not difficult.
Our spot fell between the shed and the opposite property line.
An area about 50 foot wide and 100 feet long.
We placed stakes at the four corners of the plot and were ready to get started.
The area is all grass and would need work to make it into a garden.
So off we go to Sears to get us a tiller.
We pick out the best tiller we could afford at the time but one that was way to small to get the job done.
Kind of like the little engine that could concept in tillers.
I start tilling with this tiller on ground that has not been worked and find out real quick that this plan was not going to work.
A fiend of mine I worked with had a tractor and a tiller attachment.
Hearing my plight he offered to come over and help get the ground worked and ready to plant.
The ground looked great.
The dirt was like flour.
Just as soft and ran through your fingers like sand.
With the ground tilled we were ready to pick out what we wanted to grow.
We picked the usual garden varieties.
Corn, green beans, squash, cucumbers, lettuce and other things.
We wanted corn, we planted corn.
We wanted green beans, we planted green beans.
The first principle of seedtime and harvest is this.
You get what you plant or sow.
The first principle of seedtime and harvest is this.
You get what you plant or sow.
The Bible states it, you reap what you sow.
This is true both from a negative and a positive perspectives.
If you plant discourse and trouble, you will reap discourse and trouble.
If you plant peace and harmony, you will see peace and harmony.
Notice this though, you reap what you sow.
Let me state the obvious.
If you do not sow you will not reap.
If we tilled the ground and planted nothing, we would look like fools expecting corn, beans and tomatoes!
If you want to see someone come to faith in Christ, you have to plant the seeds that lead to faith in Christ.
Missing someone at church, then you plant the seeds to reap the harvest of seeing them at church.
Our garden took work
Want a change in your situation, sow it.
With the our garden planted, we would go out in the evenings and check on it.
We noticed animal tracks in the dirt.
Dogs, deer and others.
To keep the animals out we stretched string between the corner stakes and found it only sort of worked.
We picked out a spot in our backyard to section off as the garden area.
Went to
We also started to notice small green sprouts starting to make their way through the soil.
Was it what we planted or that other green stuff you don’t want in your garden?
To be on the safe side if it looked like it was in the row we planted we left it alone.
The others we picked and removed from the garden.
Each day we inspected, removed the weeds and watered.
The second principle of seedtime and harvest is this.
We reap the good harvest if we stay at it, if we persevere.
If we had planted the seeds and then done nothing, the weeds and animals would have quickly took over the garden and we would have reaped nothing or very little.
But by being diligent and keeping the weeds out, the animals out, watering the plants, fertilizing and so on we worked towards the good harvest.
If we had planted the seeds and then done nothing, the weeds and animals would have quickly took over the garden and we would have reaped nothing.
If you want to see your harvest, you have to stay at it.
Keep working it.
In this modern age where everything is now.
We don’t have time to wait.
We want what we want and we want it now.
If you have grown a garden then then next principle you already know.
The third principle is this.
You reap in a different season as you sow.
Plant in the spring, harvest in the summer.
There is time between planting and harvesting.
It takes time for what you plant in your garden to become something you can eat.
This same principle is true with spiritual planting what you are reaping today was planted sometime ago.
What you are planting today you will reap sometime in the future.
What a crop, more than we expected
In our garden we soon began to see what once was indistinguishable as a weed or a plant became obvious.
The seeds grew into plants, the plants grew into vegetables, the vegetables made it to the table and they kept coming. 2 adults and a small child.
A 50 by 100 foot garden we soon learned the fourth principle of seedtime and harvest.
The fourth principle of seedtime and harvest is this.
We reap more than we sow.
Again this principle like reaping what you sow has a negative and positive application.
In the negative sense, we plant wrong motives, fleshly desires, SIN.
It will always grow into more than we thought it would ever be.
As frightening as that is, what a strong encouragement when seen from the positive side.
What you sow for good, will also grow into more than you planted.
More than you expect.
When you sow into your spiritual life, become diligent at maintaining it, God gives the increase and causes it to grow beyond your expectations!
Keep going, stay at it it!
In Proportion
Let me state another obvious, if me and Debra wanted lots of corn we plant lots of corn.
And last, the fifth principle is this.
We reap in proportion to what we have sown.
Same is true of our harvests.
If you want to see a large harvest in your life both physically and spiritually then you sow accordingly.
2 corinthians 9:6
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