Seed, Time, 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. Every seed sown anticipates a harvest. Once you sow a seed, it requires time to grow. Once it produces fruit, you harvest it. Seed, time, and harvest are natural and spiritual laws that have 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 a 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. The words spoken by the Lord Jesus were the eternal Word of God, which existed before time began. His Word is still alive and active. When we mix His Words with faith, the result will benefit us (Hebrews 4:2). They will manifest His abiding, unchanging, and miraculous 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, a believer needs a genuine revelation from the seed of God’s Word sown in their 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. 

 

Seed, time, 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 avoided. 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. You must sow the seed of God’s Word in your heart, nurture it, and act upon it by faith. 

Nothing can be done about the seed you've never sown or nurtured. Don’t allow your previous failure to determine your actions now. There is always the promise of a new harvest. If you want Jesus, the Word, to manifest in your life, sow His incorruptible seed, nurture its promise, and then harvest its truth by faith.