Summary: The law of the harvest is true. It takes faith as a spiritual farmer to believe that the seeds you are planting will someday provide fruit that is pleasing to the Lord for years to come. That takes faith. The seeds I am planting may look dormant, however in the Lord, those seeds, sown in faithfulness, will yield a great reward if we don’t give up.
One important thing we must remember as students of the Bible is that God inspired and moved the writers of the Bible with things that he wanted to tell to us. While this might sound basic, it’s helpful for me to remember that God tells me things in the Bible that I might be prone to forget.
Paul wrote to an agrarian culture. The primary livelihood of his readers was farming. Paul writes in the book of Galatians, “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who were of the household of faith.”
God relates a law of farming to a law of spirituality. Quick fact: Whatever someone sows, that he will also reap. When I begin to become weary, when I begin to think that all might not be worth it, I need to consider the law of the farmer and the law of the harvest. What I put into the ground, it will come back. What I put into the ground will either bless me or burn me. God is not mocked. He has set up the universe, both physically and spiritually, with a simple and straightforward formula. You reap what you sow.
The law of the harvest is true. It certainly takes faith as a spiritual farmer to believe that the seeds you are planting will result in a tree, will someday provide fruit that is pleasing to the Lord for years to come. That takes faith. The seeds I am planting may look dormant, however in the Lord, those seeds, sown in faithfulness, will yield a great reward if we don’t give up.