In my bible study time this morning I read today’s message in “Our Daily Bread”. Today’s message had a great fable. The fable ties in well with what we have been talking about so here it is:
“There was once a man who was browsing in a store when he made the shocking discovery that God was behind a sales counter. So the man walked over and asked, “What are you selling?” God replied, “What does your heart desire?” The man said “I want happiness, peace of mind, and freedom from fear . . . for me and the whole world.” God smiled and said, “I don’t sell fruit here. Only seeds.”
It all ties back the law of the harvest, if we hang out and play all through the spring planting (sowing) season and don’t get our seeds in the ground . . . we will not enjoy any harvest. Stephen Covey talks about this in his book; “The 7 Habits of Highly effective People” . . . remember “cramming” in college? We would play between tests and then when the test came we would cram the information into our brains. We retained enough data to hopefully pass the test . . . but we learned very little. A farmer can’t cram when it comes to sowing and reaping . . . if he didn’t sow seeds at planting time in the spring . . . .no fruit or harvest in the fall!
That is, to a large degree what I wrote about yesterday about the discipline. It doesn’t matter what detours we have to navigate around in our journey to following our passion and doing what God intended for us. We have to stay on the track of working and developing our knowledge and skills in the area of our passion. I know this sounds very elementary to you . . . especially all of my left-brained friends out there you are probably saying . . . . “Yeah – Duh!”. But it goes even deeper than that. What it gets down to, at least for me, is disciplining myself to do the things that are difficult for me. I have pretty much made my way in the world by thinking mostly analytically. But, I have a very strong element of creativity in me and unlocking that and not going to my learned default of left-brained thinking takes focus and practice. The more I do it
the easier it flows and the more natural it becomes. My creativity is the fruit of my sowing, which is my blogging, writing and shooting photographs. When I allow my schedule to take me away for the rudimentary exercises . . . my creativity suffers.
What about you? What is your passion that you want to follow? What do you need to be doing (sowing) for you to eventually realize your dream (produce fruit). If I can do it, then I know that you can. We are all in different seasons of life and our schedules are more or less demanding than one another. But when you envision the fruit you want to harvest . . . . it will help you to stay focused on planting your seeds!
“There was once a man who was browsing in a store when he made the shocking discovery that God was behind a sales counter. So the man walked over and asked, “What are you selling?” God replied, “What does your heart desire?” The man said “I want happiness, peace of mind, and freedom from fear . . . for me and the whole world.” God smiled and said, “I don’t sell fruit here. Only seeds.”
It all ties back the law of the harvest, if we hang out and play all through the spring planting (sowing) season and don’t get our seeds in the ground . . . we will not enjoy any harvest. Stephen Covey talks about this in his book; “The 7 Habits of Highly effective People” . . . remember “cramming” in college? We would play between tests and then when the test came we would cram the information into our brains. We retained enough data to hopefully pass the test . . . but we learned very little. A farmer can’t cram when it comes to sowing and reaping . . . if he didn’t sow seeds at planting time in the spring . . . .no fruit or harvest in the fall!
That is, to a large degree what I wrote about yesterday about the discipline. It doesn’t matter what detours we have to navigate around in our journey to following our passion and doing what God intended for us. We have to stay on the track of working and developing our knowledge and skills in the area of our passion. I know this sounds very elementary to you . . . especially all of my left-brained friends out there you are probably saying . . . . “Yeah – Duh!”. But it goes even deeper than that. What it gets down to, at least for me, is disciplining myself to do the things that are difficult for me. I have pretty much made my way in the world by thinking mostly analytically. But, I have a very strong element of creativity in me and unlocking that and not going to my learned default of left-brained thinking takes focus and practice. The more I do it
the easier it flows and the more natural it becomes. My creativity is the fruit of my sowing, which is my blogging, writing and shooting photographs. When I allow my schedule to take me away for the rudimentary exercises . . . my creativity suffers.What about you? What is your passion that you want to follow? What do you need to be doing (sowing) for you to eventually realize your dream (produce fruit). If I can do it, then I know that you can. We are all in different seasons of life and our schedules are more or less demanding than one another. But when you envision the fruit you want to harvest . . . . it will help you to stay focused on planting your seeds!
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