What Will You Do With All That Seed?

 

The Bible has a lot to say about sowing and reaping.

I've decided everything we have: every friend, every hour, every dollar and every opportunity is ours to plant or save. No matter what we receive, no matter how much we hold in our hands, we'll view whatever is entrusted to us as harvest or seed - one or the other.

If you hold your time, money and relationships as harvest, you'll soon realize you have everything you're going to have.  Hold tight to what you have and you'll have no more. 

If you think of your moments, cash, ideas and friendships as seed, you'll discover there is more in your hand that you can imagine.  Plant the seed and you'll have an increase.  Plant the increase and you'll have more.

Think about it.

If you got ten dollars, would you see it as your harvest?  Would you sing and dance and say, "My ship has come in! I'm set for life!" Or would you use it as seed, investing it so it could increase? Wouldn't you think of ten dollars as a start for something more?

What if you got ten million dollars?  Would you see it as your harvest? 

What if you viewed your ten million dollars as you see your ten dollars?  What if you saw it as seed?  What if you believed God was entrusting you with the stewardship of a "little thing" expecting you to invest it wisely?

How do you see your stuff?

Seed or harvest?

The way you look at the gifts God has given matters more than you know.

"He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. If therefore you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true riches to you? And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?"  (Luke 16:10-12 )

 

Comments

[Don Reynolds]

I was on a solitude retreat this weekend and took about 20 pictures like this one. I even put one on my blog. I could not put into words what I was thinking when I looked at it. Then I read your post today. Wow. You said exactly what I have been thinking. I titled one of my images "Gospel Unread" because the potential viral effect hidden in those familiar white wind catchers is much like the pages of my Bible. Thank you for calling us to plant the seed, not just in this post but through everything you do. I am a life that has been infected, and I sow my gratitude to God in the soil of my choices.