Sowing and Reaping

Sometimes we search everywhere for answers and don't realise that they are just right in front of us.

GP lesson last monday was a laughing spree.
A period to train those abs.
And i brought the guitar for nothing!

Angeline said that sowing and reaping was an idealistic sentence.

This is probably why i'll never become a lawyer.


I'd just like to discuss a little about this though.

Is sowing and reaping merely just a optimistic ideal that speakers, motivators, preachers use to perk up the message that they have at hand?
Or is it really a intangible law at work every single day of our lives?


Some people believe that for every seed you sow, it is not guaranteed get back 100% of what you've sown.
They say,"If you're lucky, you'll get back 50%, or more."

Isn't it such a case, especially in the area of education?
Sometimes, we take all that extra effort to prepare for that one test, one exam, one assessment that matters.
And guess what?
Life has to play a mean trick on us.
We don't get the grades we thought we should have deserved.
Is this really true sowing and reaping?
How come the amount that i've put in is not equal to the output i'm getting?

Why don't i get the promotion and yet that slacker does?

Why don't i get the post i've wanted and yet that someone else who's less deserving gets it?

Life is full of ironies isn't it?


And then there are others that believe that for every seed you sow, you'll definitely reap back more than what you've sown.
One seed can produce a multitude of fruits once it grows into a tree, can it not?

Take for example, the seed of an apple.
All you've got in your hands is but a seed.
You plant it, you water it.
And when it finally grows into a tree, how abundant is the harvest that you receive!
Certainly more than ever, your seed has multiplied, ten times, twenty times, thirty times, even a hundred times!


But wait a minute, isn't this also sowing and reaping?


Why is there so much difference in the reaping process?
Was there something that went wrong?
If the reaping process couldn't be changed, was there something that happened in between from the sowing process all the way until the start of the reaping?


When a farmer sows his seeds into the land, does he know exactly which seed will definitely bring back a harvest?

Imagine that he scatters his seeds all over a plot of land, wouldn't it be possible that some would be eaten up by birds, other animals or insects?

And when the plants start growing, are there not the weeds that grow beside it?
Some of these weeds even have the audacity to choke its host plant, effectively reducing the number of crops that can be harvested by one.

Worse of all, there might be a sudden change in weather, the seasons just didn't seem to follow the calenders of yester-years.
The dry season was too long, the wet season was too short, yet again, the farmer has low expectations of the harvest.

So hey, there are so many possibilities that can influence the harvest results and they all range from the moment the seed is sown all the way till before it is ready for harvest.

Which brings us back to the farmer, if he knew all these might happen, why did he still sow in the first place?

The answer is simply because, he sowed in faith.
All he needed to do, was to believe that someway, somehow, he would and could possibly, reap something from sowing seed.

Ok stop, pause and think. You may say that my answer is overly idealistic, but just consider this in a logical manner, is every farmer assured that his every seed will sprout and bring forth fruit?
Every single possibility under the sun to ruin the crops coupled with the unpredictable events that happen from day to day effectively puts every seed at risk.
You may say that technology has improved farming methods, but, crops are still susceptible to a variety of other factors that may cause it to be destroyed.
Technology has merely lessened the risks.

Back to my point, the farmer definitely needed at the very least, an ounce of faith while he was sowing seeds.

And would you agree that by law of relativity, the more seeds he scattered, the higher his chances of reaping would be?

2 Corinthians 9:6 (New King James Version)

But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

As illustrated in the bible, someone who scatters more seed than another will definitely reap more.

Even if you have had gave your best in preparing in an examination and didn't get the results you desired, you still would have showed an reasonable performance.

Effort shows.

Sometimes in life there are just too many birds that fly past our crop fields;
too many weeds that clutter our land;
too many dry seasons that spoil our harvest,
but if we don't lose hope, and continue to scatter in faith, continue to water it daily, continue to persevere in our efforts, one day, your harvest will not be denied.

Mark 4:20 (New King James Version)

But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.