| Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. |
| —2 Corinthians 9:10 |
The seed supplier is the one who gives the gardener or farmer the ability to plant crops and grow those crops to a successful harvest. The crop must begin with the seed. If there is no seed, there will be no crop.
In our lives as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have an adequate supply of the seeds of faith, the seeds of hope, and the seeds of love. We also must have sufficient seeds of God’s mercy and seeds of God’s grace. And, we must rely on the seeds of truth from God’s written Word.
In each case, the One who supplies those necessary seeds is God Himself. He gives us the bountiful supply of every seed we need, in order to love and serve Him with all four of our human modalities: our hearts, our souls, our minds, and our strength. The Apostle Paul reminded the Corinthians of this with these words found in 2 Corinthians 9:10:
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
Our harvest of righteousness does not come from our good deeds, or our good behavior, or our good … well, anything. Just as God provides our salvation through His precious Son, Jesus, when we follow God in obedience, He provides the necessary seeds that will produce a harvest of righteousness.
This day, let’s praise God that He supplies the seeds that will grow a harvest of righteousness within us. Let’s thank Him that, when we are totally unable to supply what we need through our own efforts, He is the One who gives us all that we need.
