Seeds become harvests
Zechariah 4:10a
For who has despised the day of small things?
What a great question to start the day with. According to the dictionary, to despise is to 'regard with contempt, loath, to hold as "seemingly insignificant"'. A great key to remember is to never look at small things or beginnings as insignificant, but rather by faith always dare to see their future potential. Because the bottom line is that everything that is one day great starts as something that is seemingly small –every mighty oak tree starts its journey as a small acorn.
We all want the great "oak trees" and the successes that come with them, but we need to understand and always commit to the process of getting them. This process is seen in Genesis 8:22 and is called seedtime and harvest. To actually understand this principle you need to take it from being two words or components to being three: seed-time-harvest! Every great thing – whether a church, business or project – starts seemingly small, like a seed in your hand. Then comes time – this is the one we often try to remove so we get straight to harvest, but it is in this component that things gain their strength and root themselves for permanence. Then finally comes harvest – this is when we see before us what we first dreamed of when we held that seemingly small seed.
Seeds produce Harvests
This reality can work both positively and negatively in our lives and when we understand that fact we can begin to manage, remove and design some of the harvests we experience in life. Everything starts as a seed – great ideas and dreams but also deceptions, delusions and habits. They all start seemingly small. One of the keys to being a leader in life is to be a seed spotter – someone who can recognise things that have the potential to produce harvest and manage them when they are still seeds. In a positive context this would be to nurture and protect its growth, and in a negative context this would be to get rid of delusions and deception and habits when they are still small and manageable. Remember, if you don't deal with the seed you will deal with the harvest! Even the devil understood this principle – notice that when he came after both Moses and Jesus to destroy them he came after them as babies (seeds). Why? Because he knew that would be a lot easier than dealing with the harvest that their fully grown lives would produce. He did not succeed and Jesus became that grain of wheat that caused an ever-enlargening harvest to be triggered, of which we are a part (John 12:24).
What seeds need to be managed in your life today?
Andy
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