Sowing & Reaping

Guest Writer: Paulette (April’s Mom)

Growing up as a country girl in rural North Carolina our mother usually had a garden.
She had a “green thumb .”I didn’t inherit it. I do enjoy seeing plants grow though.
Over the years I’ve tried my hand at gardening.
One year I planted a cucumber……so  I thought. But as time went by and I saw a little marble size round object growing, I realized what I had done.
 I had got my seeds mixed up. I was growing a cantaloupe, not a cucumber, Have Mercy!

You think I would have conquered my gardening error, but this year same thing happened. Waiting for the cucumber to manifest……again it was a cantaloupe. Which was fine since I was growing different veggies in buckets and cantaloupe was one of them.( By the way my bucket garden did very well!)

My faux pas reminded me of the scripture in Galatians 6:7-9 …“ for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap.”
I like the Amplified Classic version of the latter part of that scripture..”THAT and THAT only shall he reap.”

The sun, rain and soil  or any other factor cannot change the seed you actually sowed. Regardless to how much I had wanted a cucumber to grow, no way, if a cantaloupe seed was planted.
The principle of sowing and reaping is usually associated with negativity. However, the scripture focus is on the seed not good or bad.
The focus: What did you sow? If you planted good seeds in life you will reap the good, if we plant bad seeds we will reap that also.

We all are aware of the bad seeds we sowed and then wish for crop failure. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. God in his mercy has helped us and shown grace even when we are reaping our bad seeds. He is also aware and faithful to reward the good seeds we sow every day.

Remember, it’s a biblical principle. Let’s make sure we know what we are sowing and know what to expect from the harvest.
For some people when it’s said “you will reap what you sow” they will rejoice and say “ I hope so” because they sowed  the good seeds.
Because “whatsoever a man soweth that and that only shall he reap.”