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Yellow and green are the first colors of spring. The grass goes from brown to vivid greed. The daffodils and the forsythia race to see who will display their bright yellow first. I love to see a forsythia blossom in the spring. I know the bream are biting and bass are bedding. I have been to the back side of nowhere in the woods and come up on a row of daffodils and realized there was a house here some time past and some lady, not a man because he was too busy plowing and planting, brightened her home by planting daffodils in her yard. Even though the cabin is gone and the lady is gone those daffodils live on.
If you want to do something that will out last you, plant some daffodils. Sometime in the future someone will happen upon your daffodils blooming bright yellow on a warm summer day and be gladdened by their beautiful announcement of spring.
In Luke 8 Jesus tells a parable of a farmer who went out to sow. Sowing is an act of faith in the spring when the farmer partners with God to grow a crop. The farmer sows his seed and has faith in God to provide rain, sunshine and soil in anticipation of a crop. We are not all farmers but we are sowing seeds every day. Our words and actions are seeds that we sow into the lives of everyone around us. Those seeds will bear some kind of fruit.
Paul says if we sow to the flesh them from the flesh we will reap corruption and if we sow to the spirit then from the spirit we will reap eternal life. Whether corruption or eternal life grows in us or the people around us depends on the seeds we are sowing. What future legacy will you leave for others? It all depends on the seeds you sow.
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