Kingdom. In Genesis 8:22, God makes a perpetual
promise to us all. He said, “While the earth remains,
seedtime and harvest…shall not cease.” Well, since the earth still remains, there is a time to sow seed and a time to reap a corresponding
harvest.
Jesus taught about sowing and reaping in Mark 4, and emphasized the type of
soil you sow into. If you sow a seed into good and worthy ground, it will grow
and multiply. The fruit is always more than the seed, and within the fruit are
many more seeds. If you plant one bean seed, you will reap a bean plant that has
many beans on it. You always reap more than you sow. If you
then took one of the beans on that plant and sowed the seeds that were in it,
you would reap many more bean plants the next season.
When you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly and when you sow bountifully,
you reap bountifully (see 2 Corinthians 9:6). If you desire fruitfulness and
multiplication to be activated in your life, you need to give the Lord something
to work with. You need to sow seed according to what you desire to
harvest.
Isaac sowed in a time of famine, and he reaped a hundredfold in that very
year (see Genesis 26:12). No matter what is happening in the world around us, we
can sow into the good ground of His faithful promises and reap abundantly. We do
not live by the world’s systems or ways. We live in the Kingdom.
