Sowing and Reaping is the Usual Way
As Christians, we belicve in a God of miracles, but also, God made and supports a world of sowing and reaping. See this in 2 Corinthians.
6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
This passage is about giving generously. However, we can see God has made a world of sowing and reaping for us. This relates to agriculture and really everything.
Sowing and Reaping is a Key Principle
My relationship with my family is not magic, but an issue of sowing time and heart and reaping relationship.
Cause and effect is part of this world, and we often reap consequences for foolish things we do.
My small business is about investing time and money and getting a return.
In the midst of all this God does give me grace. However, he does not want me to rely on this but rather to follow the command:
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
God loves us which is grace, but we respond to Him in love, time, obedience, resources and faith. The relationship with God needs effort. We do reap what we sow. God does not want us to becone spoiled and lazy children, but rather uses sowing and reaping to train us.
Thus, we learn how to live.
In Jeremiah, God says:
My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken me,
the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
The result is that God is hurt and dissappointed, and the relationship languishes.
God loves us and gives us power to live the a new life in Him. We should invest (sow) in our relationship with Him by believing Him and trusting him as the source of living water. Often, we trust in ourselves, and the relationship languishes, and we live with our own broken cisterns.
Let us trust that God is living, powerful, and training us to do what should be done.
