Are you a farmer for life? You are probably very familiar with the law of sowing and reaping. Farmers get to be a part of that every year, as they put their seed into the soil and watch it grow and produce a harvest. God thought up that law, and pretty much everything in life operates on it. What you sow is what you are going to reap. I have been reading in II Cor 9 recently and am always amazed at how much God wants to bless us through the law of sowing and reaping. Verse 6 starts this way, if you sow sparingly you will reap sparingly. It goes onto say that as God’s grace abounds to us, we will be able at all times, having all that we need, to abound in every good work. Verse 10 talks about God giving seed to the one who will sow it, and giving us bread to eat, or for our food, or our consumption, and then that He would increase the seed (YIPEE!) and enlarge the harvest of righteousness. Verse11 says that we will be made rich in every way so that we can be generous on every occasion! I love how the Message Bible says it….God is more than extravagant with us, so we can be extravagant with others. Sounds like we get to be extravagant givers! No stingy farmers among us! The abundance we receive, we get to pass on. Do you have an abundance in some area of your life? Why not share it? Give and it will be given again unto you. In my garden we’ve got more than enough to share. Do you want a tomato?!!! Let the generosity and extravagance of God, rub off on you, and onto somebody else!
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