Today is Perfect

Ecclesiastes 11:4-6 (NLT)

Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things. Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

To be a farmer almost seems in the same thing as becoming a professional gambler, as you must make the initial investment not knowing what the outcome will be. Both professions require something without a promise of a fruitful return. The farmer labors over the land, plants the seeds, fertilizes the crop, waters it, and hopes there will be a season of harvest. A gambler studies the odds and participants and places his bet according his perception of his own odds of winning. Such uncertainty makes one wonder why either would ever engage in such activity, many people could not imagine the pressure of waiting on uncertain outcomes. In fact, Christians struggle with the same type of commitment. It is impossible to wait for perfect circumstances to trust God but we try to do just that. Asking God question after question about the outcomes we desire in life, all the while being afraid to commit our lives to His Outcome.

When a farmer plants a particular crop, he has in mind the harvest that he will receive. For example if the farmer was to plant corn and coffee came out of the ground, needless to say he would be quite perplexed. He has the equipment to harvest corn, the storage devices to preserve the corn, and the buyer to purchase the corn so the coffee presents a problem. Each farmer plants with an expectation specifically of what he will harvest. Indeed, the farmer generally harvests exactly what he plants unless there was a problem with the seed. It is a cycle of nature. However, as a Christian, we cannot predict what God chooses to do with the seed that we put in the ground. It is totally dependent on the Lord what harvest His Children will yield. For many believers whether they realize it or not, this is a problem so they limit God in their sowing because what they will reap is a concern. Until God’s Children can believe that knowing everything God is about to do in advance is not part of God’s plan for sowing and reaping, they will continue to be disappointed in their “harvest” because faith is required! To receive all that God has for you requires faith like a crop must have the rain. Are you satisfied with the “harvests” in your life? What have you planted lately?

“Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.”  God has an amazing way of showing us His Gigantic Truth in the simplest way. As Children of God, we operate in the same sowing and reaping system as the farmer. Each day God’s mercies are new and carefully deposited into our life for our use. He gives us another day to use however we choose. The Lord grants us resources for that moment and the freedom to choose how we will use them. We are given everything that we need to produce abundant blessing in our life. However, when we hoard it for today in fear of tomorrow and never release it to the Lord, it becomes utterly useless and of no worth. God is waiting for His Children to stop waiting for the “perfect” time to serve Him and throw caution to the wind and do it now. That means sowing everything into the Lord by faith and waiting for the harvest of His Choice. When we sow, we will reap! It is a promise but the reward is God’s Choice and His Plan. Fear tells us that we will not be satisfied with God’s Best, or that He will forget us or that His Reward will come too late. All lies from the enemy who is planting weeds into your field of promise in hopes of choking out your blessing. Friends, there are things that God does on our behalf that we will never understand until we stand with Him Face-to-Face, and that is just part of our journey on earth and finite understanding. However, His Promises are true and untainted by sinful nature or desire, His Blessings are real! It is the sowing season, are you ready to start sowing into the Lord again?

Galatians 6:7-8 (Message)

Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.

Ignore the clouds that are covering your life today, the Son is still there. The rocks and weeds that threaten your life will be cleared by the Hand of the Master if you permit Him to! He is ready to bless you with an abundant and pleasing harvest, but you must plant something in order to receive it. God is nudging you to release what you have for something greater, now is the time to do it! The world will never seem like the right environment for God’s Greatest Blessing because it is filled with ugliness and sin but God is able to produce His Goodness in the midst of His Children who live in obedience. Repentance clears the rocks. Prayer removes the weeds. Faith plants the seeds. God gives the increase! Release that which is keeping you from your harvest and allow the Holy Spirit to tend the fields while you continue to plant! Your blessing is coming when you do! God’s Promise for you will begin to sprout and before you know it your tiny garden will become an endless field of God’s Abundant blessing! Today is the PERFECT day to start a garden!