Most people are city bred.
We run our lives by an urban clock. Fuel the car, stop by the market, call the repairman to check the plumbing. It’s backing up again.
Yet for most of humanity’s existence, the majority of us lived an agricultural life. Planting in the spring. Watering. Weeding. Having faith that the harvest will come, and it will be a good one.
Galatians 6:9 in the NIV speaks to that lifestyle:
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Even if you have no soil, no plot of ground, and you’re not interested in growing plants, you will still reap a harvest in your life. Here are three crops you plant that will mature over your lifetime and for which you will gather in a crop, whether good or bad.
Our 1st Crop: Seeds of Good Habits
There is an element of “habit” in each of our crops, but let’s set it out as a crop in itself. Get up for church on Sunday. Pray with your family. Set aside a little money each week. Visit the dentist twice a year. Yeah, ordinary things. They will make a difference when your harvest time comes around.
Our 2nd Crop: Seeds of Disciplining our Children
This is more specific. Good discipline isn’t getting angry and throwing our weight around. It’s setting up the rules, being consistent, and providing a guiding hand (and instruction) to being the best our children can be. This includes providing a good example in how we live our lives.
Our 3rd Crop: Seeds of Investing in Our Marriage
Most marriages in the U.S. fail, but you know that. How to keep from being part of that statistic? Invest now to stay married later. Time. Money. Experiences. Be there for one another. Your job may be important, but your marriage will last longer than your job. Focus on the correct goal.
This verse tells us not to be weary in doing good. How must the farmer feel when he’s planted his spring crops, it’s now August, and his barns are still empty? He’s still fueling his tractors, irrigating his fields, and laboring in the hot sun … weary? You bet. He knows, though … he knows that the harvest will be worth the work … if he keeps investing his energy, time, and effort.
He makes a habit of doing good, for he will harvest his efforts in due season.
When we make an investment in God, he will bring about a good harvest in our lives.
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