The Generous Farmer

One of the interesting things about people that have reaped a significant crop in life is that they can’t tell you exactly how it happened. They will often tell you that they stumbled into blessing. The harvest found them more than they the harvest. Now these people worked hard, sowed bountifully, and they could tell a good deal from a bad one. But they weren’t precious about their seed and they weren’t arrogant in their judgment.

The temptation that comes as you grow in discernment is to grow thin, narrow, and snooty. In the name of only making the most excellent meals for your children, you make very few of them. With an aim to invest in only the best start ups, you invest in none. No suitor for your daughter will do. No doctrinal books but the most pristine. No house comforts but the most elegant. No steak crosses the threshold of your lips, but Waygu. In the name of pursuing perfection, which you ought to be pursuing, your life becomes tiny. So tiny you actually miss the dark horses, the shepherds out in the field, the younger sons, the Nazarene, surely nothing good will come from Nazareth.

The point is not to look for diamonds in the rough. The point is to sow your seed liberally. Give a portion to seven and also to eight. The solution is to be like the generous farmer. He has his a fair idea of which crops will grow and which fields will produce, but he’s happy to scatter his seed far and wide because he is humble enough to admit that he doesn’t have a clue at the end of the day where the crop is really going to come in. Ecclesiastes 11:6—”In the morning so thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”

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