It has been a full day, Father, and I realized that I had yet to sit down with You! I would ask for Your blessings on our time together. Amen.
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In my downtime today, this little story popped up on Facebook.
There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best-grown corn. A newspaper reporter interviewed him one year and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
Shouldn’t this be how we live our lives as followers of Christ?
It has never been God’s intention that we keep His love to ourselves. Some may have the mindset that others are too entrenched in the evils of this world to benefit from His love – and that is far, far from being true! – but I think many of us are just afraid to let our light shine too brightly for fear of repercussion.
I know of a gentleman who has had to patronize a local eatery recently due to family circumstances. He has felt great joy in his opportunities to interact with a young employee at the establishment. He has not preached at her. He has not led her in a Bible study. He has just freely strived to let Christ shine through his words and actions.
He is simply sharing the best “seed” he has! Inevitably, God will bless the sharing of His seed.
I love the passage of Scripture from Luke 6:38. Though it is often applied with our own “prosperity” in mind, it actually is smack-dab in the middle of a lesson from Jesus addressing forgiveness and not judging others. I think it is readily applicable here as well.
Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over [with no space left for more]. For with the standard of measurement you use [when you do good to others], it will be measured to you in return.” AMP
Oh, Lord Jesus, may we all eagerly spread the seed of Your love to a world desperate to benefit from its fruit! Amen!
Feb 23rd, 2023, Thurs, 7:18 pm
