Planting Season

Broadcast 4129

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (NET) says, "For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what was planted."

Growing up in the village, harvesting season was always a joyful time. I remember accompanying my grandmother and others to the farm to harvest yams. We would gather around a small thatch hut on the farm, and after harvesting for a while, we’d build a fire and roast some yams. We’d eat them with red oil mixed with freshly plucked pepper and salt. You could see the satisfaction on my grandparents' faces as the yams piled up in the barns by the riverside. But none of this would have been possible if we hadn’t planted during the right season.

The natural world often reflects spiritual truths. The Bible teaches us in Ecclesiastes that there are specific seasons and appropriate times for every purpose on earth. Just as there’s a correct time to plant certain crops, there are also appropriate times for planting spiritual seeds.

In parenting, the formative years (ages 0 to 6) are the planting season for instilling morals and home training in a child. In terms of career, childhood and youth are the right times to pursue education. For family life, the Bible speaks of the wife of one’s youth, emphasizing that youth is an appropriate season for starting a family.

When we consider life from an eternal perspective, we realize that our time on earth is our planting season. Jesus told a parable about a man who planted wheat, but while men slept, the enemy sowed weeds. Jesus instructed to let them grow together until the harvest, referring to the time of His return and the judgment of the world.

Our time on earth is when we plant and sow what we will reap in eternity. This time can be divided into day and night—youthful years and later years of life. More productive planting is done during the day so that as evening approaches, one can focus on nurturing, weeding, and watering the seeds sown.

What are you doing with your planting season? If you do not take advantage of it, you will reap sorrow and regrets.

Go into today determined to fulfill God’s plan for your life while it is still day, for night comes when no one can plant. Harvest time beckons; start planting now.
— Ikechukwu Mpama

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