KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Sow
A PERIODICAL CALLED The War Cry carried a story about a tenant farmer who had worked hard for many years to improve the production of the land he leased...
Then something happened that caused him to become very bitter. When it was time to renew his lease, the owner told him he was going to sell the farm to his son who was getting married. The tenant made several generous offers to buy it himself, hoping the man's decision would be reversed, but it was in vain. As the day drew near for the farmer to vacate his home, his weeks of angry brooding finally got the best of him. He gathered seeds from some of the peskiest and most noxious weeds he could find. Then he spent many hours scattering them on the clean, fertile soil of the farm, along with a lot of trash and rocks he had collected. To his dismay, the very next morning the owner informed him that plans for his son's wedding had fallen through and that he would be happy to renew the lease. He couldn't understand why the farmer exclaimed in agonizing tones, "Oh, what a fool I've been!"
THOUGHT: That man sowed good seed in fertile ground for many years, and reaped great crops. In a moment of anger, prefaced by several weeks of bitterness, he sowed bad seed. No doubt, for years after, he had to reap that crop as well (Tom Moore).
KneEmail: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal. 6:7; cf. Job 4:8; Hos. 8:7).