Seedtime and harvest will never cease!

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." (Gen. 8:22 NIV)

I love Spring!

It's my favorite time of the year! It's when the first flowers like crocuses, daffodils and tulips appear in my yard after a long cold winter. And boy did we have a frozen, snowy winter this year! It's such a relief to see the weather turning warm again. Spring time is also when we get the gardens ready to receive fresh seeds. I have always been amazed at how something so small, like a flower seed, can have such a wonderful miracle trapped inside. When placed in a properly prepared flower bed, fertilized, and watered, beautiful flowers come fourth! Without fail. And so it has been since the day God created the earth. It's a huge promise!

There are three words found in “seedtime and harvest” – seed, time and harvest.

It takes all of them working together to produce any kind of crop.

• Seed: God provides seed for the sower, and He increases it!

“Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.” (2 Cor. 9:10 NIV)

• Time: Whenever you plant anything, it involves time in two ways.

First, you must plant the seed at the right time. “The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.” (Prov. 10:5 ESV)

Secondly, you must wait for a period of time for it to grow.

“All by itself the soil produces grain-first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.”

“There is a time for everything … a time to plant…” (Eccles. 3:1-2 NIVa&b)

• Harvest: You reap what you have planted on the day of harvest.

“A man reaps what he sows.” (Gal. 6:7b NIV).

And another huge blessing is that you get more than what you planted!

“Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” (Matt. 13:8 NIV).