A man moved to South Florida and he bought a little tree, just a sapling—maybe two feet tall. It was a tropical fruit called a lychee. Lychee is a little smaller than a ping pong ball, with a rough red skin. When you peel the skin, gray fruit inside that Allison says looks like an eyeball. Does look like an eyeball but it tastes wonderful. My dad had eaten one somewhere, loved it, wanted to grow some himself. So he planted this little tree—and it grew and grew—year after year no lychees. Not even any blossoms. The man asked a fruit farmer who told him to be patient. Finally, ten or 12 years later, he got a crop. Now every year he gets lychees. He planted and then years later he picked. Or to use this language: He sowed, then in time, he reaped what he had sown. The Bible says that you reap what you sow. Over and over, many places and ways. 1. Job says that those who plough evil and sow trouble reap the same. 2. Moses says “be sure, your sins will find you out.” 3. Hosea says that those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.
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Paul says in Corinthians that he who sows generously will reap generously, and he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly. 5. The entire book of Proverbs is about sowing and reaping. 6. Book of Revelation describes the Second Coming as a day of reaping— when every person will be judged according to what he has
Paul says in Corinthians that he who sows generously will reap generously, and he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly. 5. The entire book of Proverbs is about sowing and reaping. 6. Book of Revelation describes the Second Coming as a day of reaping— when every person will be judged according to what he has