What a person plants, he will harvest. Galatians 6:7 (MSG)

“Daily deeds are like seeds.
They turn into flowers
or turn into weeds.”

But many only pay attention to what’s growing out of the soil; what shoots up from the ground of our lives. When something beautiful grows, we pat ourselves on the back, take photos and post them on social media, smile and congratulate ourselves on a job well done.

But when weeds grow? In our lives and workplaces and countries and governments?
We look for someone to blame. “Who planted these twisted vines?”
We point a finger at those who live differently, look different: “It must have been them! They’ve planted the bad seeds!”
We point a finger at our parents, friends, co-workers, brothers, sisters, parents, neighbors, enemies.
We blame our poor circumstances; we blame how poorly we’ve been treated, we blame the preacher, the butcher, and the bank manager. We blame fate.

Rarely do we look to see the dirt under our nails.
Rarely do we recall our daily walks to the garden bed watering the seeds we’ve chosen not to notice that we ourselves planted.

“Daily deeds are seeds…”

“Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.” Galatians 6:7-8 (MSG).

It’s not so much that you mock God when you’re surprised by what’s growing in your life. It’s that you can’t expect to live outside the movement of sowing and reaping. When you plant in response to God – which is to say, understanding the movement of sowing and reaping, holding the tension of surrender and determination (see the last series we wrote called “Live in the Movement”) – then you’ll get the hang of sowing what's needed to reap life.

Daily words are the drops of water and rays of sunlight that nurture those seemingly insignificant plantings that will, inevitably, grow into something.

After all, seeds can’t help but grow.

And the grace of it all is that, whenever you choose to notice the dirt beneath your nails, you have the power to weed your garden and plant again. And again. Again. All the while, watching the beauty that it all creates.

I wonder what you’re growing?

Written by Liz Milani
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