Scatter the Seeds

December 10

The garden of life flourishes with fruit. Each of God’s children has harvested much from the lush fare of life. The Master Gardener has withheld nothing from those who believe in His name, yet there may be inconsistencies among us that make us question the fairness of how His fruits are distributed.

There is a reason believers are admonished by the Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 10:12, “They who compare themselves among themselves are not wise.” When we allow ourselves to assess our lot in life with that of another, we will surely find ourselves to be advantaged in some areas and disadvantaged in others.

But the most unfortunate aspect of this profitless enterprise is that when we indulge the futility of comparison, we allow ourselves to become distracted from our main purpose—that of sharing His salvation message with the lost.

We are to allow the Holy Spirit to conform us into the image of Christ; we are to reflect Him more and more; we are to win others to Him by the light of His truth that we allow to shine in our lives. We are to be the reflection of Christ to the lost.

We are to so live before our Lord that we may, as stated in Isaiah 61:3, “…be called trees of righteousness, planted by the Lord, to glorify Him.” We must recognize that we possess no righteousness of our own, that we are like other men. We know nothing good dwells within us, yet, when Jesus lives in our hearts, our lives become a reflection of His goodness.

When we shine His love and truth and salvation through the living epistle of our lives, everyone whose life touches ours may see the fruit our lives bear and everyone whose life touches ours may feast upon that fruit. Love, truth, goodness, mercy, honor, kindness, hope, faith (see Galatians 5:22, 23)—all the things that Jesus is—become evident in us and we distribute them as He gives opportunity.

We share the wonderful fruit of the Spirit that He has nurtured in us among the lost so they, too, may taste and eat and be blessed. The precious outcome will be that they will partake of the fruit of salvation; that they will then become scatterers of its precious seeds.