God’s Law Of Life And Small Potatoes

Most folks who know me aren’t surprised that I see so much in how God works from an agricultural view. I see what I like to call God’s Laws of Life played out on an on-going and daily basis in such a clear way that for me it makes absolutely no sense to live otherwise than how He has directed us to walk and live our lives. There are many Laws of Life that our creator has given us. All of them for our good.
 
There is a story told from many years ago, Chinese farmers theorized that they could eat their big potatoes and keep the small potatoes for seed. Consequently, they ate the big potatoes and planted the small potatoes. As a result of this practice for many years, the Chinese farmers made the startling discovery: nature had reduced all their potatoes to the size of marbles.
 
A new understanding of the law of life came to these farmers. They learned through bitter experience that they could not have the best things of life for themselves and use the leftovers for seed. The law of life decreed that the harvest would reflect the planting.
 
In another sense, planting small potatoes is still a common practice. We take the big things of life for ourselves and plant the leftovers. We expect that by some crazy twist of spiritual laws, our selfishness will be rewarded with unselfishness. But we cannot eat the big potatoes and have them, too!
 
“We reap only what has been sown” is one of these Law of Life God placed in effect long before we humans ever thought of it, read Gal. 6:7. Encompassed within just this one Law of Life are some Givens. Life is filled with choices, choices that affect us on an everyday basis in everything we do. Our everyday choices are not without significance. Our choices affect us and others in dramatic ways whether we see it immediately or not. While earth remains, no man will mock God by changing for even one time this Law of Life.
 
On a secondary level of this Law of Life there are some other elements that must be remembered. We reap the same in kind as we sow. We often will reap in a different season than when we had sowed. We are going to reap in proportion to what we sow. We can’t do anything about last year’s harvest but we can about this year’s. We are only going to reap a full harvest of the good we do if we are willing to persevere. And finally, don’t forget “You can’t out give God”.
 
Ask yourself, “What size potatoes have you been planting spiritually?” - "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap" Gal. 6:7

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