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PROGRAM D-8087

There are three major principles about sowing and reaping we should all know very well because we are each sowing seeds in our lives on a daily basis which later on we will reap. The first principle is that what you sow, you reap. If you sow good things, you reap good things.

The second principle is that you always reap more than you sow. When we plant flower seeds, we reap many blossoms from one seed. When the farmers plant one grain of wheat, they reap many more grains of wheat from the single grain. We reap more than we sow.

Now, consider how these two principles apply to our daily lives. What seeds did you sow yesterday? Did you work diligently and do your very best? Were you kind to others, willing to help and with a good attitude? If those are the kind of seeds you sowed yesterday, you will reap good things today.

Your work will be easier today because you worked hard yesterday. You won’t be nearly as frantic and stressed out today because you don’t have yesterday’s work to do today. You’ll find that people will treat you better today because you were kind to them yesterday. The help you gave someone else yesterday will come back to you today when someone is willing to help you. You are reaping today what you sowed yesterday.

Furthermore, you’re reaping more than you sowed. When you sow a good seed in someone’s life, it reaps a multiplied harvest. You may not be aware of that harvest, but it’s there. You extend kindness to someone, and they are encouraged to be kind to someone else. You role model a servant attitude, and other people reflect that in how they treat others. You may sow one little seed of doing something good, but it will reap a much larger harvest than you can imagine or will ever know.

It’s always amazing to me to see how the seeds we sow in this ministry reap such multiplied harvests. The emails and devotionals we send out every day travel everywhere, from one person to another, one state to another, one country to another. Those tiny good seeds each of us plants just keep multiplying in the lives of untold numbers for long periods of time!

We also need to remember that when we sow the wrong seeds, they come back plentiful as well. Have you ever noticed how quickly weeds multiply? Let one dandelion get in your yard, and the whole lawn is overtaken with dandelions before you know it. This principle applies to both good and bad: You reap more than you sow.