John 4:35 (AMP)
Do you not say, It is still four months until harvest time comes? Look! I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields and see how they are already white for harvesting.
Harvest is the yield from a plant in the growing season of gathering ripened fruits. Sowing and reaping is a law of both the spiritual and natural world. Ever since the beginning, man has understood the process of sowing and reaping and has applied it to his benefit.
The process of harvesting is indicated first in Genesis 8:22 and several other places, where the divine Noahic covenant guarantees the continual cycle of sowing and harvesting.
So many people are due a harvest and the Lord is on the move to bring the harvest in.
Harvest is for everything we sow in life according to Galatians 6:7. However, if we choose to live in ways that are contrary to the will of God, like a lot of people believe that they can do anything and get away with it but be assured that there is an accounting system with God that compensates you for whatever seed you’ve sown.
Many Bible stories explain the phrase “whatever you sow you shall reap.” You reap what you sow means you get what you deserve, whatever you put your time, talent, and energy into is what you get back. You reap what you sow means you must eventually face the consequences of your actions.
Sowing and reaping imply a waiting period as nothing good grows overnight. The farmer must be patient to see the fruit of his labours.
The mystery of harvest is the planting, watering and reaping according to 1 Corinthians 3:6, suggesting a length of time. God will bring always forth fruit to His glory in His time. Until such time, we faithfully labour in His field, knowing that at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” as stated in Galatians 6:9.
Although we are no longer in the era of burnt offerings like Cain and Abel in Genesis 4, however, God still requests that we generously and cheerfully give to his work in 2 Corinthians 9:6-8.
Jesus here contrasts the natural harvest-time with the spiritual, which was immediately to take place in the ingathering of the Samaritans. The “you” here is emphatic, marking what everyone should expect according to the order of nature.
We wake up daily to a set of possibilities, each one presents a choice and the effects of those choices we will reap through our day, week, month, and year(s).
If you study the bible, it will help you make choices that will benefit you through life and unto eternity. The Word of God will become a light unto your feet to take the right paths for in life says Psalm 119:105.
Everything works according to the principle of sowing and reaping- seedtime and harvest, this is a time principle- for you to look forward to a harvest, means you must have seed in the ground- the more seed is sown, the better harvest you expect. Sow your seed wherever you believe is a fertile ground in the morning, noon and evening, don’t be stingy, you don’t know where the Lord of the harvest will send your harvest from, says Ecclesiastes 11:6.
Galatians 6:8 says if you sow to the flesh, you will reap corruption. But if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap everlasting life.
The Lord sees and records all your seeds- money, time, word, tears, every labour in the vineyard of the Master brings fruitful and blessed harvest but you must first have sown seeds to receive a harvest. Count your seed, account for them, and receive your abundance of harvest.
Shalom
