Why It Is Better To Give Than To Receive

I'm certain that most everyone will recall the phrase, "What goes around comes around." For the most part, we tend to apply this to our lives in a negative way, when in reality this saying is just as true when used positively. In a world which is slowly turning more negative every day, it is easy to have a jaded and cynical view of things but the saying, "What goes around comes around," also applies to a positive outlook on life. The idea here would then be that if you give it will come back to you. That is to say, if you see giving as being a priority over receiving, when you are in need there will always be someone there to give to you.

In the Bible this is called, The Law of Seedtime and Harvest. In Genesis 8:22 we can read, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." There are things that will never change so long as this earth remains. You are wasting you time praying that winter or summer won't come. You may not like winter but in my neck of the woods, winter is coming. You may not like heat and you may not like cold, but heat and cold are coming. You can pray all night that day won't come, but day will come. Genesis 8:22 is a law and it is unalterable so long as this earth remains.

In Genesis 8:22 the Law of Seedtime and Harvest is mentioned. This also is a law and, as such, it is unalterable so long as this earth remains. We have learned to adapt our lives to hot and cold, summer and winter, as well as day and night, but we still haven't quite gotten the picture when it comes to seedtime and harvest. We have not fully understood this yet. We have adapted it to certain areas of our lives, but we fail to understand that the Law of Seedtime and Harvest is as much a law of hot and cold, summer and winter, and day and night. Seedtime and harvest is a law and it is working right now, either to our advantage or our disadvantage. What we can learn about it can work to our advantage and what we don't know about it can hurt us because the Bible says that we are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.

Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." If you were looking at this is strictly physical terms, it would be obvious that what you sow you will reap. If you sow tomatoes, you will reap tomatoes. If you sow corn, you will reap corn, etc. That much, in strictly physical

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