Planting for the future. When springtime rolls around, all the farmers in our area are prepared to get to work. They know what kind of crop is going in their fields and are prepared to get in the field as soon as it is possible and the weather cooperates. They understand springtime and harvest. You plant, and you reap. You put the seed in the soil, you tend the seed, and you get to reap the benefits. Sometimes it happens in a very short amount of time. Other seeds take longer. Planting an acorn seed is a life- long commitment! Weed seeds can be here today and burned up tomorrow. Matt 13 talks all about farming. As Christians we are farmers for life! We understand that words are seeds, and just like God who spoke the world into existence, words produce things. Good and bad. When we think about living a no regrets life, it is important to know that even if we wish we hadn’t said something, or would like to take words back, or even have asked forgiveness for what we said, those words are out there in the atmosphere. They are seed that have been sown. Some seeds we need to pray for crop failure! But what if we decided to watch everything that we said? What if we decided to put a monitor on our mouth, so that each word was something we would never regret? Then we could know what kind of crop our life is producing. We would be speaking encouraging words. We would be making sure those who we love, heard it from our mouths regularly. We would be dream releasers instead of dream crushers. Let’s plant good seed for the future, and make sure our words line up with living a no regrets life.
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