From the Bible:
The word tells us we reap what we sow.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be led astray: Elohim is not mocked, for
whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap. 8 Because he who sows to
his own flesh shall reap corruption from the flesh, but he who sows to
the Spirit shall reap everlasting life from the
Spirit. 9 And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due season we
shall reap if we do not grow weary.
10 So then, as we have occasion, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of the belief.
When we sow seeds in the ground, we are not planting one tomato seed for one tomato. We plant a tiny tomato seed and get bushels and buckets of tomatoes. This is how Yah's creation works. This is how Yeshua spread his ministry. This is how the things in our lives work. If we plant seeds of doubt and anger, lust and discontent, etc, etc, seeds of the flesh (as mentioned above) we will reap those fruit. When we plant the fruit of the spirit (love (notice this one is first), joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) we reap those things back to us in the form of the fruit we planted.
Stepping outside the Word into our daily lives:
The problem for people, just like planting plants, is that not every seed grows. When you plant a seed of love, and get no fruit but only thorns and weeds, one doesn't want to put out the energy anymore to try to grow something that is just going to die anyway. Sometimes it seems like it's going to live, but then it dies anyway, and that hurts worse. However, if we are talking about the food we eat, we try again. We would totally replant, try again to make sure we don't starve through the winter. But when it comes to love, we people plant a seed, and when it fails, we shrivel up inside and die a little.
The problem with that is that when the winter comes, we have no "love food" to sustain ourselves through the hard times, and we end up totally starving to death inside. Since we can't kill our own soul, our soul becomes bitter and hurts, and there is no resolution. Every time we plant a "love seed" it may not grow, but every time we plant one, there is a CHANCE it could grow, and that will feed our soul, but the chance of pain is enough to keep us from doing it.
10 So then, as we have occasion, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of the belief.
When we sow seeds in the ground, we are not planting one tomato seed for one tomato. We plant a tiny tomato seed and get bushels and buckets of tomatoes. This is how Yah's creation works. This is how Yeshua spread his ministry. This is how the things in our lives work. If we plant seeds of doubt and anger, lust and discontent, etc, etc, seeds of the flesh (as mentioned above) we will reap those fruit. When we plant the fruit of the spirit (love (notice this one is first), joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) we reap those things back to us in the form of the fruit we planted.
Stepping outside the Word into our daily lives:
The problem for people, just like planting plants, is that not every seed grows. When you plant a seed of love, and get no fruit but only thorns and weeds, one doesn't want to put out the energy anymore to try to grow something that is just going to die anyway. Sometimes it seems like it's going to live, but then it dies anyway, and that hurts worse. However, if we are talking about the food we eat, we try again. We would totally replant, try again to make sure we don't starve through the winter. But when it comes to love, we people plant a seed, and when it fails, we shrivel up inside and die a little.
The problem with that is that when the winter comes, we have no "love food" to sustain ourselves through the hard times, and we end up totally starving to death inside. Since we can't kill our own soul, our soul becomes bitter and hurts, and there is no resolution. Every time we plant a "love seed" it may not grow, but every time we plant one, there is a CHANCE it could grow, and that will feed our soul, but the chance of pain is enough to keep us from doing it.
In testimony:
I had to wake up one day and
just accept that I am going to hurt. It's going to hurt. I'm going to
be rejected. I'm going to be abandoned. I have been abandoned in the
most elemental, final way possible, and it's
just going to hurt. But you know what else...it is ok that I hurt.
Hurting means that there was love. If someone rejects me and it hurts,
it's ok. It's going to hurt for a while. I'm going to cry, feel the
pain. But more often, the seeds turn into plants.
When I reach out in love to people I get heaps of love back. When I
show love to people, they usually shine in love back onto me. When I
show kindness, instead of being an ass, mistakes are covered, because
love covers a multitude of sins.
Yeshua told us to love others
as he loved us. He died for us. He KNEW he was going to die from his
love for us, and he didn't stop loving us anyway. The Torah commands
us to love our neighbors as ourselves. That
is not contingent on us being loved first, and it has no condition of
reciprocation. It doesn't say we will not be hurt, and provides no
remedy for the hurt when it comes.
By accepting the hurt will
happen, just like the occasional promising sprout will die, I am able to
invest in another person again, and give them love. The hurt heals
more quickly, in my experience, and I am able
to bear the pain and tray again because there is other love in my life
to sustain me.
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