Seedtime and harvest teachings abound in the church today. The truth is, they work. If we plant seed, we will get a harvest, both in the ground, and in God’s work.
Even so, we need to use wisdom. Farmers are careful not to consume their entire harvest, because keeping seed stock in reserve for the spring planting is as important as having a full belly when winter snows cover the ground. If we eat it all, we have nothing to plant when the soil is ready to receive our seed. It’s the spring planting that will bring forth a new harvest to sustain us another year.
Deuteronomy 22:6 tells us:
“If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.”
We have to keep something in reserve. Financial advisors suggest three months’ income in a readily accessible savings account. We can’t expend our seed stock in a blind bid to get God to multiply our monies so that we can have a full belly in the middle of winter.
Proverbs 13:22 tells us:
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.”
We don’t take the mother bird, we don’t eat our seed stock, and we don’t drain down every dollar in our bank accounts. That’s Biblical wisdom straight from the Word of God.
If we have a reserve built up, then when God has a need, we have the funds to give to the ministry of Christ. Sid Litke, Th.M., at Bible.org, suggests we consider living beneath our means, so that we have plenty of seed to fund the necessary works of the Church.
We need to reserve a portion of our seed, so that it can be planted in the work of the Lord. That’s the best place to get the best harvest that any farmer has ever received.
When we use our money wisely, we’ll always have some left over for God.
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