November 28th, 2008

The principle of sowing and reaping is of great value to any who would understand it.
Yeshua said the Parable of the Sower is the most important parable in the whole Bible. If one would but understand it’s meaning, they would understand all parables. The understanding of all parables yields greater understanding and brings life. God’s word is truth and life.

LUKE 4:4
It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

JOHN 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Yeshua only spoke the Words of God, not his own. The words that he spoke have the ability to sustain life and make it increase in value, but how many would hear his words, that they might LIVE?

When he shared the parable of the sower with the multitudes he instructed those who had ears to hear, Hear. (Mark 4:9) after he (Yeshua) completed his oration of the parable, his disciples inquired of him why he spoke in parables. His response was this:

Mark 4:11-12

Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

This next verse explains why people that are without (strange - not his) are unable to hear.


Matthew 13:15


For this people’s HEART IS WAXED GROSS, and their EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Matthew 13

So, here we see clearly the three things that prevent one from receiving the Life that God has to offer through His words.

1. A heart that is callous - showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others (unfeeling, uncaring, cold, cold-hearted, hard, as hard as nails, hard-hearted, insensitive, lacking compassion, hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-edged, unsympathetic).

2. They have dull ears - ears that are lacking interest (muffled, muted, stifled, suppressed, drowsy, weary, tired, fatigued).

3. They have closed (manually shut) their own eyes. They don’t desire to see.

However those who are able to both hear and see are well off, or fortunate, because they are able to receive the life that only comes from the Word of God. (Matthew 13:16)

I am a living example that the Word of God brings life, as just a few days ago my oldest son brought this scripture alive in an entirely new way. He was being scolded, and chastised for a poor decision he’d made. His father and I had repeatedly encouraged him in this particular area and he’d refused to adhere to the encouragement and change his way. This day as we chastised him, we saw the spirit of rebellion rise in him and he rejected all the correction that we were giving him at that moment. He rejected the correction to the point of walking out of the house into the cold without a shirt on, in the cold. As we stood there baffled for a moment, we realized that he’d made a choice and that his choice was all that he could live by. One of my other sons ran out after him with a backpack the contained a coat and shirt for the young scolded runner, but came back not having found his brother. A second time I went out with my other son to search for him, but again found nothing.

As I walked and as I returned home the peace of God came over me.

You say, how could that be: your son just ran away from home! If I were you I would start printing photo copies of his picture and knocking on neighbor’s doors. If I were you I would call the police or something. Things are so bad and this world is a dangerous place for him to be without those who love him.

We did none of the above, but rather leaned on the word (LIFE) that God had already given us. We knew that whatever we’d sowed we had to reap.

In the book of Proverbs chapter 22 and verse 6 it gives life of this sort:

Train up a child in the way he should go (this is the sowing part): and when he is old, he will not depart from it (this is the reaping part).

Indeed we all go through things but it is how you go through that determines who and whose you really are. Those who belong to the Father, have this confidence that what He speaks is true and He cannot and will not lie.

As my husband and I ministered to our other children after this incident we saw their resolve to stand on the Word of God as we had done.

I told them that their brother made his decision and that he would now have to live with that decision. We’ve trained all of our children the same (in the Word of God), and if that Word had taken any root in him he would return as the prodigal son had returned: repentant and broken.

God showed me that he would protect him and he’d already given me his Word on the matter.
I saw him with a coat on, although I didn’t know where he would have gotten the coat from, but then I saw something that would have startled many others. I saw him laying on the ground on his face. I asked God, will he be alright? and He responded yes.

When my son and I did our last walk that night before returning home, we had actually walked a circle around the area he was in. As I’d walked I prayed for him.

That night our area was flooded with police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks, but I refused to bend or break on what God had spoken to me. There was no need for emotion, only trust in Him.

I rested well that night, and was only awakened a few times throughout the night to pray, and I feel right back asleep.

The next morning life went on as usual in our home. Our children filled in on the chores that their brother would normally do, without even being asked to do so. AMAZING!!! The seeds that we’d planted in our children were bringing forth a great harvest. There was no worrying, no crying, only a bit of disappointment and expectation of their brothers return.

Not long after we’d risen from sleep and prepared for the day, there was a knock at the door.

It was our son! He had returned home.

He told us the story of how, as he walked in the cold, he saw an army coat on the ground. He picked it up and put it on. God met him in the park that night , and knocked him on his face. His legs where temporarily paralyzed not allowing him to move. God asked him questions and spoke words to him. All of the things God spoke were the things that we had spoken to the rest of our children that night. It was as if while we spoke the words, God was also speaking them in our sons ears.

All of the sowing we’d done as parents was now being reaped. All of the sowing of the Word of God that was in us, was now bringing forth a harvest. (Mark 4:20)

I shared this with you to encourage you to stand on the life that is offered in the Word of God. There will be plenty of challenges and opportunity for you to shrink back into emotionalism, but His word is either true to you or not.

Standing on His word brings life, and that I know, with certainty. He has never and will never fail. Why? Because he doesn’t change! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever more.

Whatever your situation in life, it is not to big for His words. He’s already given you everything you need to succeed. Just sow it and reap it.

IT’S JUST THAT SIMPLE!

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