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Greetings,
Today I am in Bellingham. I am taking some needed time to be with my wife and getting some ministry projects done while I am here. I am producing another video group course concerning God, Our Friend. It is based upon my book, Friendship With God – The Empowerment of Honor and Grace. I expect to finish the video recordings this week.
As I wrote last week, I believe that we are in a season of greater glory. We will prevail in this season. There will be a testimony of unexpected glory, but we must keep our focus on the right things. Our focus should always be upon our relationship with Holy Spirit as the person of Christ in our lives, Jesus as the Lord of our desires, and God as our Father for His kingdom to come and His will to be done in our lives for the glory of His name. The testimony of our relationship with God will be one of love for Him and a love for one another.
In Galatians chapter 6, Paul writes that we will reap what we sow in life. As sons and daughters of God we live in the character of Christ with the testimony of Christ in all things. We don’t just live for ourselves; we live for the wellbeing of one another. When a brother or sister is overtaken in a trespass we seek to restore them in a spirit of gentleness. We willingly bear one another’s burdens because we are the body of Christ. We are both individually and corporately a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. We each carry the responsibility of love and life for God and one another. We receive and we share in the life of God as His family in this world.
In our journey of life we are constantly sowing, and we are continually reaping in the seasons of our life. Our sowing must be to the Spirit to reap the seasons of God’s Spirit in our lives. That harvest is a harvest of everlasting life (eternal life). Jesus said that eternal life is to know God as our Father and Jesus as His Son. This is made possible by our connection to Holy Spirit within, with, and upon us in life (Jn. 17:3).
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
For everything that we sow, there is a due season. Just as it is with natural seeds planted into the ground for the purpose of producing a crop, the things we sow to the Spirit will reap a spiritual harvest in our lives. The purpose of every harvest is always for seed and bread. It for seed in that it gives life to another generation of harvest beyond us. It is for bread in that every harvest of our lives will bring life to others in our world. Every harvest has an appointed time of sowing and an appointed time of harvesting. Every type of seed has a germination time, a time to spring up, a time to grow, a time to mature, and a time of reaping. The length of time for this process is different for every type of seed. This same thing is true for us in our journey of life. We cannot compare ourselves with others. Our expectations must be centered upon our own personal relationship and walk with God from within our hearts. Who God says we are will determine the process of our due season, not what we see in the path of another. For this reason, our personal relationship with God in our hearts is paramount to the process of our due season in life.
Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
The word for ‘lose heart’ in this verse is the GSRN 1590, ἐκλύω (eklyō), and it means to relax (literally or figuratively). The force of this word could imply a fainting, a giving up, or a losing of heart. For this reason, our diligence in the process of our due season is connected to the One who gives life to our hearts.
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Our due season is not about our work, it is about the work of the Lord in our lives. Our labor is not a labor for our will, but a labor for the will of God in all things. The most powerful motivation in life is love. Fear can be a powerful motivator in a negative way, but God’s love is stronger. His perfect love casts out all fear. Knowing God’s love will empower our love for Him and for one another. God’s love is the fuel of the process of our due seasons in life.
My challenge for us today in the process of our due seasons in life is to make every day of the process another moment of connecting to the One who loves us at all times and in all things. His love within us will give us the desire and diligence for the process of our due season in the harvest seasons of our lives. That harvest will be for seed beyond our present season and food for others because of our season in life.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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