Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Sowing, Tending & Harvesting OR Sometimes Moving On ...

**Note: Blogger is not cooperating with me today with regards to hard returns. For some reason, it won't publish my paragraph spacing or even allow me to begin a new sentence on another line. Sorry, for the lack of paragraphing. The other day while out watering the garden, my little EJ asked me why I was tending a garden we wouldn't get to eat from. I told him it was the right thing to do, because when the new prospective owner(s) made an offer on our house the garden had been planted and they were most likely expecting me to tend it until we leave. Yes, I said until we leave. Our house finally has a buyer and we are scheduled to close early next week. HooRay! After two years and four months of separation, we will finally move north where Mr.B works. In the meantime, that short conversation with EJ got me pondering. How many times do we fail to sow into God's kingdom because we aren't planning to be around or involved long enough to minister/disciple or reap a Kingdom's harvest? How often to do we abandon what we've sown because our life changes causing us to know that we won't be around to see or benefit from the harvest? Although we won't be here to reap the harvest from our garden, if the new owner(s) take up the tending where we leave off, they'll have enough produce to eat all summer and probably have some left over to give away. However, if I abandon the work I started before the new owner comes in and takes over everyone, including me, is robbed of a blessing. Likewise, when we fail to sow or tend into God's Kingdom simply because we know or suspect that we won't be around for the harvest, we are robbing God. I think we Christians should be mindful that often times we may only be sowers, other times we may come along and tend to what others have sown. And then there are times when we either take part in bringing in a harvest we didn't sow/tend or we move on and others bring in the harvest we prepared. In the end it is God whom we should be striving to please and glorify. Ministering for the Kingdom only when we ourselves benefit is an atempt to bring glory to ourselves, not God. Our family may not eat any of our garden's bounty this summer, but knowing that our work could benefit someone else is a huge blessing to me.

9 comments:

  1. Congratulations on selling your home and now being able to be all together.I agree so much with the rest of yur post,sowng seeds of thought is sometimes the easiets part but tendering to what you have sown takes a lot of work but rewarded so beautifully by our Lord,a lovely post.xx

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  2. First, what an excellent blog post! Very good points made that I can certainly learn from. :)

    Second, YAY! I am so excited for you and your family to be moving up here. Keep me up to date on your moving progress. You'll have to get in touch with me when you all get up here! I'm looking forward to actually meeting you. :D

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  3. Thank you ladies for the lovely comments.

    Also, ShellyKay, I am very excited about meeting you also!
    Mrs.B

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  4. Wonderful news and wonderful post! Such true thoughts to ponder. And I am so glad to hear you will all be together now!
    *BTW, I am having the same problem with the paragraph spacing. I had a commenter suggest a fix but it wasn't the problem. If you resolve it let me know how you do it!

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  5. I will tell you this, God speaks through you Mrs. B!

    Only God can get me through you moving away!

    I miss you so much already!

    I love you and your family so much!

    Mrs. A

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  6. Praise God that your family will be together again soon!! What happy news! and AMEN on the rest of it :) I'm so happy for your family :)

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  7. Oh I am so happy for you!!! It is so hard to be away from our husbands!

    And your blogpost was very good. thank you for taking the time to share!

    In HIS Keeping,
    Mrs.B

    (missed you!!!)

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  8. Hello Ladies,

    Thank you all so much for the blessings.

    Mrs.B

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  9. I've been planting some things around here as of last Summer. I have had house plants before, but have not had anything outside before, in the actual Earth. I have also not ever moved, or had to move, away from the place of my birth. I am in North AL. I have traveled to the four corners and more of the US, but have never lived anywhere else. Anyway, planting these seeds around here, has made me think more of the parables in the Bible. :) I guess the people Jesus was talking to knew more about the physical, and He was trying to teach the spiritual. Being raised in a Christian home, I have heard more of the spiritual, but, even though we always had a garden, I guess I missed out on completely understanding the physical--I helped a lot in the garden and around the house, but my parents were still "in control", and I was late in life to move out on my own, etc. I have just picked three cucumbers I have grown from seed!! I'm pretty happy and proud. :) I even sowed late, and not even really well, so I'm very thankful for this opportunity, especially since I'm 43 years old. :) I've never really had a long-term perspective and hope for life, especially I guess since I was always taught about Heaven and heard so much about the Rapture and the End Times in my teachings.......So, at this age I don't know if I'll be around next Summer. So, I'm really glad to be able to grow these things now. I'm aging, my parents are aging, and my sister's kids are growing up. It is really hard sometimes for me to know how to handle things, since we are not here on earth forever, and don't always know how much time we have left........I've had to realize and accept that I will pass on someday, and so will all my family--ok, that's a little hard!!!--but we will all pass on, and as far as I know, all the belongings I have worked so hard to accumulate, will go back to dust one day, too........(I wonder if God will be so kind as to resurrect some of them for us as well???? :) Photos, and such and other things???? would be nice, maybe??) Like you said, we are all just a part here on this Earth, sowing reaping, in the physical and in the spiritual??????!!!!!.......:) Anyway, me sowing all these seeds here physically has taught me a few things and opened my eyes more to the physical and spiritual.......:)

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