2 Corinthians 9:10
On January 2015, our 14-year-old son simply proclaimed, “I am going to Nicaragua on a mission trip.” The following 5 months provided a journey of faith. God was blessing Aidan’s desire to join our church team on mission in Nicaragua.
There were the jobs providing funds to go to Nicaragua and the support letters arriving almost daily with checks. When all God's funds were counted --Aidan’s fund raising not only funded him, but also rolled over to me and two others who participated on the trip! Just like one corn seed yields multiple corn cobs on the corn stock, God had multiplied Aidan's funds!
Within hours of returning from Nicaragua, Aidan declared he was going on another mission trip the next year, too. Amazingly, within the first week of returning, he already had $400 in his mission fund for the following year! Again, God was increasing the harvest!
All year Aidan saved and worked to go to the next mission trip – this time in Uganda. Even when the cost increased $800, he was not deterred in the least. He knew that he would have the funding if it was God’s will that he was to go. And, he did.
Faithfully, God provided “seeds to the sower,” allowing Aidan to save money for the mission trip. Again, like the year prior, God “increased the harvest of Aidan’s righteousness,” allowing Aidan to roll over his funding to others attending the trip.
Why does God supply so abundantly for some and not others?
“Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” (2 Corinthians 9:10)
God is the supplier.
God is the multiplier.
God is the increaser.
He will supply.
He will multiply.
He will increase.
He will multiply your seed for sowing.
He will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
Yet, you need to be sowing.
You need to be righteous.
The sower is doing the work of the Lord.
The sower is planting the seeds given to him.
The sower is busy about the work given to him however big or small it is.
He is sowing.
Are you sowing? Are you busy about the work given to you no matter how big or how small?
You need to be righteous. Righteousness is given to all by the death of Jesus on the cross. To be righteous is to be “right” with God. To be right is to be justified in the sight of God, which is not possible without the covering of Jesus. Alone, none of us is righteous because of our sin. It is only with the covering of the blood from the cross that we can stand in the presence of our Holy and Mighty God without fear.
Are you righteous?
The promise of God is:
If you are sowing for Him and you are right with Him, He will supply for His work, He will multiply the efforts, and He will increase the harvest.
Are you being called to sow? Begin today with small steps. You sow. God will multiply the efforts then you will be blessed.
Claim this promise today. Start sowing.
Fingerprints
of the Lord
Christine
A. McCloy
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