So lately I have been reading in the book of Matthew. I came upon The Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13. Verse 23 in the Message really stuck out to me:
"The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams."
As I read this verse, I started asking myself some questions - Am I producing any harvest? A little harvest? Let alone a harvest beyond my wildest dreams? I can imagine a “revival,” a “great awakening,” or a “movement.” My mind can imagine God working in so many mighty ways yet sadly it many times stops at just imagining. I limit God and am unfaithful to him when I only imagine instead of acting.
God can do immeasurably more than we can think or imagine. We need to live our lives, day-by-day, step-by-step, in being faithful and following his will. Then a harvest can be produced beyond our wildest dreams!
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Think about the seed and the ground. Ground that is fertile is ready for a seed to be planted. The seed grows. the seed is the word of God. If the seed is to give a cup of cold water to one child and that one child has been given a cup of water there has been an abundant harvest.
"I limit God and am unfaithful to him when I only imagine instead of acting."
... ugh. But I'm so great at imagining!
Thanks.
~Francy
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