Harvest Season

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“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” Ecclesiastes 3:1

The Bible tells us that there are times and seasons for every activity in life.

Fruits show this truth very profoundly. At the appropriate time, any fruit will be sweet and enjoyable but prematurely, you miss the flavour and it will be so unpleasant.

There is a season for planting and a season for harvest and you usually will reap in a different season than you sow.

Also, not all fruit ripens at the same time. When you have a guava tree, the guavas are not all ripe at once. They come in little by little; you pick a few a day.

Yes, you have sown, yet, you need to realise that oftentimes, you are going to have to wait to reap in a different season.

But while you are waiting, God is working! When you are waiting for the harvest of the prayers or efforts that you have put into something, you may think nothing is happening. But it is!

While the seed is hidden in the ground, it is slowly germinating. And when the seed bursts with God’s blessing on it, it will continue growing and growing. One day a little shoot will stick up out of the ground, and then you will see that it’s working.

But until then, you need to trust that God is working, even when you can’t see the fruit of your labour.

Plants take time to grow. There’s no such thing as instant growth. No farmer goes out, plants the seed in the ground, comes back an hour later, digs it up, and expects it to have grown. You’ve just got to let it be. Leave it covered, and let God grow it in his time.

“Let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up” Galatians 6:9