Seeds

Christian Working Woman Transcript

Monday, April 09, 2007 - What Kind of Seeds are you Sowing?

What kind of seeds have you been sowing lately. Even though not many of us are farmers and gardeners. All of us are sowers and reapers. There are some important principals about sowing and reaping we need to understand..

Galations 6:7 states the first principal very clearly. Do not be deceived, God can not be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Thus, the question I asked you before, what kind of seeds have you been sowing lately.

If your sowing seeds of righteousness, you will reap good things. Seeds of righteousness would be things like being kind to people, having a servant attitude towards others, giving yourself in service to the Lord in small and big ways. Seeds of righteousness includes living a pure and clean life. Not allowing known sin to remain in your life. Being obedient to God’s commands in your life.

Are these the kind of seeds your sowing on a consistent basis, day in day out. If so, you’ll find that God’s blessings are showered on you. Peace, joy, contentment, fulfillment. And those seeds you sow for others come back in a harvest of good things others will do for you.

However if your sowing seeds of sin and disobedience. Don’t be surprised to discover the harvest is very painful. If you’ve been sowing seeds of immorality, do you have any idea of the ruination that will reap in your life. Paul tells us in Corinthians, that when we sin sexually, we sin against our bodies. And that causes untold consequences that are long lasting.

Are you sowing seeds of lack of discipline and laziness. Proverb’s 13:18 tells us that the person that ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame. Not a very pleasant harvest, but that is what you will reap in due season. Are you sowing seeds of careless and thoughtless words or too many words. Proverbs 13:3 says a person who speaks rashly will come to ruin. And in Proverbs 10 we see that when words are many sin is not absent.

So if we are sowing the wrong kind of words we should not be surprised to discover a harvest of ruin. Ruined relationships and opportunities because of careless words. Did you ever think of the harm we can do with the tongue that is out of control. The harvest can be disastrous. We surely need to be careful about the seeds we sow, because one thing that is for certain. What we sow we will reap, it is unavoidable.