Seedtime and Harvest

Seedtime and Harvest

 

 

“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).

 

As long as the earth remains, harvest is certain. Harvest always follows seed time, and every seed is sown with anticipation of a harvest. Seed time and harvest is a natural and spiritual law that has worked since creation. The seed you sow, naturally and spiritually, will eventually bring forth a harvest. 

 

Your life is a harvest and always reveals the nature of the seeds you have sown. Whatever you sow, you will reap, whether bad or good. Your attitudes, hopes, words, thoughts, and actions are seeds that have created your harvest. If you don’t like your harvest, you need to change the seeds you are sowing.

 

Peter wrote: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23).

 

The Word of God refers to itself as a seed. In forty-four verses of the New Testament, the Greek word “sperma” is translated as “seed.” This word is the same word that gives us the term “sperm.” Just as a child cannot be produced without sperm, a child of God cannot be produced without the incorruptible seed of God’s Word. All births originate from seeds, and being born again spiritually is no exception. The seed that brings forth salvation is God’s Word. Just as it would be foolish for a woman to expect to have a child without the seed of a man being sown in her, it is equally foolish to anticipate someone being born again without planting the seed of God’s Word in their heart (Romans 10:14-17).

 

Natural seeds sometimes decay and fail to produce life. However, God’s Word is an incorruptible and imperishable seed that consistently brings forth life. God’s Word is always effective. We must permit His Word to work in us, sowing, protecting, and nurturing it.

 

1 Peter 1:23 also states that the seed of God’s Word lives and abides forever. Its effectiveness has no expiration date. The words spoken by the Lord over two thousand years ago are still alive and active. When we mix His Words with faith, the result will benefit us (Hebrews 4:2). They will manifest the miracles of His truth in our lives. 

 

Many Christians believe and pray for God to intervene in their lives, yet they often feel frustrated when they don’t see results. This frustration frequently stems from a lack of knowledge about the Word. Without the Word, they miss the seeds of conception. To live a victorious Christian life, one needs a genuine revelation from the seed of God’s Word sown in the heart by faith. 

 

In Mark 4, Jesus taught three parables illustrating that the Word is to the kingdom of God what a natural seed is to a harvest. The first of these parables, the story of the sower, is key to understanding all of the Word of God. Jesus said we won’t understand any of His other parables without grasping the truths of sowing and reaping the Word in our hearts (Mark 4:13). For God’s Word to benefit our lives, we need to know how it works in us. 

 

Seedtime and harvest are truths of nature that cannot be altered by anyone. A person can cheat or manipulate what other people create. You might cheat the legal system and go free. You might manipulate your work situation and secure a promotion. You might change many things on this earth, but you cannot change the law of seed time and harvest in God’s creation.

 

What if a farmer didn’t sow his crop until he saw others reaping theirs? Regardless of how honest he might be or how warranted he was for not planting at the right time, he would not reap a crop overnight. The law of seed, time, and harvest cannot be manipulated or controlled. 

 

This is the reason why Jesus compared the way His Word works to a seed. There must be a germination process of the Word of God in your life. It takes time. It can’t be rushed or evaded. Just as a seed has to remain in the ground over time to germinate, so the Word of God has to abide in us.

 

Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:46: “However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.” This verse speaks of the first and last Adam. The first Adam was a natural man, and the last Adam was Jesus, who gave us spiritual life directly from God. For the Word to come to life supernaturally within us, there must be a natural action on our part. We must sow the seed of the Word in our hearts, nurture it, and act upon it by faith.

 

I know the Holy Spirit wishes me to grow in understanding. It is foundational for the truth of God’s Word to manifest in my life. He has reminded me of sowing and reaping in each verse I have studied and meditated on in the last few weeks. When I read Genesis 8:22 two days ago, I knew I needed to pursue this. I am praying about insights from the Word that He is bringing to life in me. I ask your prayers for the Holy Spirit to bring to my understanding His revelation of seedtime and harvest and how this spiritual law works in my life. 

 

Thank you for letting me share with you. 

 

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