Your Harvest is Sure

Genesis‬ ‭2‬:‭5‬-‭6‬, ‭8‬-‭9a,‬ ‭ESV‬‬

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

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And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

Galatians 6:7,9, ESV

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap…And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 

Last week we started talking about the truth that everything starts with a seed—and that what we want to see grow, we have to sow.

This truth—that we will reap the harvest from what we've sow—is one of the most beautiful and hopeful promises in scripture. 

But here’s the thing about sowing and reaping: the sowing is exciting—and the reaping is fulfilling—but the middle is hard work.

God planted the garden, but the man had to work it in order to see it grow. God was responsible for the watering, but Adam had to work the ground.

And so it is with us.

And now, because of the fall and the curse, that “working the ground” is hard. It’s toilsome and tiring and labor intensive.

It involves working and waiting—and both are difficult.

Starting something may seem like the difficult part—until we get into the middle of the thing. The difficulty of the starting is often eclipsed by the excitement that comes with it. But the middle—the working and waiting after the excitement wears off and while we're not yet seeing the harvest—that's the hard part.

So allow me to encourage you today with this reminder: what you’ve sown is growing, even if the growth is slow.

God is watering, so keep working. What you’ve sown will grow. What you’ve sown, you will harvest. It’s a promise of God, as sure as the laws of nature.

So just keep working that ground. In the proper season you’ll reap that harvest.

Your harvest is sure.