Summer has ended and fall is all around us. The growth of most plants has come to an end or slowed dramatically, animals are preparing for winter, birds are migrating to far away places, and the human species looks at the beautiful foilage and longs for even cooler days. Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner and then the seeming slow, dark, dreary days of deep winter surround us. Then like magic the first green of spring soon to be followed by that last green shoot to spring forth. All are within their season. Summer is a display of production and preparation for harvest.
Our lives are in many ways the same. Spring is a time when new life begins and summer shows its toil under the noon day sun. All in preparation for the harvest and finally enough to get everyone through winter till a new birth begins over again.
Lets think about the productive measure of our lives. Life begins, then that which is the driving force within each of us grows a harvest. The only difference between plants, animals and humans is this - Man can spiritually change the course of the harvest coming from within. If we deny the right of Christ to come into our lives then we are going to grow a harvest that does not nourish nor bring life. It will bring death. The harvest is intended to be many fold more than the seed planted in our hearts. We are to bring forth a harvest that gives life not only to the bearer but to the recipient also. Our lives are to be spent for the betterment of others.
Let the seasons teach us of two things: We are to be givers while we live as the night comes when no one can work and each of us will be judged for the works done in our body while alive on earth.
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