Making the
Switch
That’s the way we,
as seed-sowing believers, ought to be today. We should have our “reaping” faith
in gear and our minds on the harvest.
That’s a switch
for a lot of us because until now, we’ve focused our faith primarily on
planting. We’ve concentrated on God’s promise to provide seed to the sower
and bread to the eater.
Thank God for such
bread-receiving, seed-sowing faith! It’s wonderful. It’s opened the door for
God to meet our needs and give us enough to invest in the work of His kingdom.
But that’s not all God wants to do for us. He didn’t just promise to give us
food to eat and seed to sow, He promised to multiply that seed and give us a
harvest. He said:
He which sowed
sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sowed bountifully shall reap
also bountifully. Every man according as he purposed in his heart, so let him
give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loved a cheerful giver. And God
is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. (As it is written, He
hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remained
for ever. Now he that ministered seed to the sower both minister bread for your
food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your
righteousness;) being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which caused
through us thanksgiving to God (II
Corinthians 9:6-11).
God has had
harvest time in His sights all along. That’s why He taught us about sowing and
reaping. That’s why He sustained us and met our needs while we were waiting for
our crops to come up. He intended to multiply our seed and give
us such abundant
harvests that we’d always have all sufficiency in all things and wouldn’t need
any outside aid or support.
From the very
beginning, God’s aim was to bless us so extravagantly that we could demonstrate
to the world that we don’t need anyone but Jesus to support
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