SOWING IS A LIFESTYLE - PART 3

Growing a few tomato plants in the back yard doesn’t make someone a farmer.  Any more than giving an offering on Sunday makes that individual a sower.  Nor does planting a vegetable garden.   
A sower is a person who understands the power of the seed and the law of seedtime and harvest.  From the very beginning, God intended that you and I be sowers.  It is how He planned for our lives to be sustained.  Through our sowing, we have the power to determine our own destiny.  We see this principle in Genesis 1:28 when God told the first man and woman to have dominion.  The Message translation says:
Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge!...

God is saying that through the law of seedtime and harvest, we can actually take charge of our future.  Sowing is what got you where you are today and it is how you are going to get where God wants you to be.  Sowing is not a part-time endeavor or a hobby.  It is what you are and what you do.

Most of us have no idea that the way our lives have turned out is a direct result of the seeds we’ve sown.  Like most people, we wake up every morning wondering what will happen next, how will we pay the rent, will our families have enough to eat.  It’s never occurred to us that we have the ability to take charge of our lives and destinies.   Our lives are on a downward spiral because of the seeds we had sown and we’re still sowing.
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Thank God you finally hear the truth from God’s Word, and that truth sets you free.  The parable of the sower, told by Jesus in Mark, has been called the granddaddy of all parables because it is the blueprint for how God’s kingdom works.