Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
–Robert Louis Stevenson

There are times in life when I have felt that I have not made a difference to anyone in this world because the harvest was not plentiful. What I mean by this is that the expected outcome did not come to fruition at all or in the manner in which I thought it would. It was in those times that I felt most like giving up or walking away…it’s easy to think these thoughts when life doesn’t turn out the way we had planned it would. We are people who need to feel like we are in control even when we verbalize that we ‘trust’ God.

But perhaps we should not look for the harvest but rejoice that we have planted. You may have been kind to people, you may have taken a leadership position that no one dared to take, you may have started an organization, group, something and in those moments when you spoke to the world, when you allowed your gifting to shine, you blessed someone. Isn’t that what God wants…for us to look at our life by what we’ve planted, the obedience to walk the walk He’s called us to walk even if there is no crowd to applaud, no one calling your name?

I am at peace right now. I feel terrific. I have failed at some things, super succeeded in others, but all those attempts at something whether successful or failure in my eyes where great in the eyes of the one that matters. Remember that next time something you tried to do didn’t work out the way you would. Judge your own life by the seeds you plant, not the harvest that you expected.