Now that Faith Farm is producing and the farmers are harvesting wheat, it makes me think of all the references in Scripture about reaping.  In fact, do a search of the word “reap” and you will have pages of verses that speak of it.  For sake of space, I’ll hit on three. 

1.     Job 4:8—“Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.”  Common sense tells us, that if you plant one thing, you will grow it.  In other words, have you ever seen a farmer plant wheat in September and have tomatoes in June?  It won’t happen.  What you plant is what you get. 

This is true in our spiritual journeys as well.  You can’t go around planting seeds of anger, dissension, etc. and expect to experience peace, positive relationships, etc.  You get what you put into it.  The question is:  What are you planting—good or bad?  What should you be expecting down the road come “reaping” time? 

2.       2 Cor. 9:6—“My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.”  An illustration of this was a man from my home town.  He was not famous or rich.  But, he was a giver.  Over the years, it would be hard to count the people he helped.  As he got older, he was unable to do things he “needed” to do.  People were more than willing to help him out.  One time he commented to me, “Why are people so good to me?”  I told him it was because he had done so many things to people that now it was his turn to receive for a while.

The question is: Are you a giver or hoarder?  If a farmer goes to a quarter section of land and tosses one seed in the middle, can he expect to have a crop-filled field later?   No.  He sows in proportion to what he wants to reap.  The same is true spiritually—if you put a little into your journey, you will get little out.   

3.       Galatians 6:7, 9—“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.  And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.”  The farmer planting wheat on Thursday won’t have his combine in the field on Friday.  It takes time for a harvest to develop.  There are all kinds of things that can happen between the sowing and the reaping.  Left ignored and the farmer won’t have wheat, he’ll have weeds.  It takes time, energy, effort for a bountiful harvest to happen.

It’s the same spiritually.  For you to reap, you not only have to sow, you have to do all you can to insure a productive harvest can even happen.  The questions become:

1. Are you sowing the right stuff? 

2. Are you doing all you should to allow the right stuff to grow? 

3. Are you going to be patient while God is growing in you all He wants?

 What kind of farmer are you?