An Everlasting Harvest

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. 1 Peter 1:23

D.L. MOODY
We hear nowadays so much about “culture.” Culture’s all right when you have something to cultivate. If I should plant a watch, I shouldn’t get any little watches, would I? Why? Because the seed of life is not there. But let me plant some peas or potatoes and I will get a crop.
Don’t let any man or woman rest short of being born of the Spirit of God. Don’t cultivate a dead and corrupt thing, first make sure that you have that divine nature, then cultivate it.

ERWIN LUTZER
Jesus taught that the true seed is the Word of God (Luke 8:11). The gospel of the kingdom Jesus proclaimed was breaking into Satan’s kingdom and rescuing people from his grip. Jesus told a parable where sometimes the seed of the Word fell on hard soil and took no root; at other times the seed was choked by the cares of this world. But then there was the good soil that brought forth fruit. In each case, the same seed was planted, but the condition of the soil determined whether it bore fruit. And when the seeds bear fruit, they reproduce themselves. Why? It’s because within them is life, and within God’s Word there is life, and you and I can share that seed with others.
We sow by our witness, and when we sow the gospel in the lives of other people, we are trusting and believing that God will breathe life into those who hear it. If we are believers, the gospel has been sown in our own hearts that we might bear fruit, and in turn we sow the imperishable seed in the lives of others.

PRAYER
Father, I thank you for the gospel. Grant me opportunities to sow your seed on fruitful ground.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS
What stops you from proclaiming the Gospel to others?

At this moment, how would you explain the Gospel?