Warning: You Get What You Put Out

Marriage is a Gift – Part 3

What if whatever results you’re having is because of something you did?  What if you can directly impact the results you’re having by taking a different approach?  Wouldn’t it be worth it to do it or at least know that you could alter your course?  Becoming uncommon means you must be willing to entertain what is anything, but normal.  Here’s a scripture that I’ve planted in my memory:

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” – ‭Galatians‬ ‭6:7‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Our good friend, Melissa says it this way, “it’s a round world.”  Whatever you put out circles right back around to you.  I like to say it this way, you can’t reap what you did not sow.”  In the scripture above, it says don’t be stupid; God isn’t.  He knows what’s going on and has given us insight into how life works.  Fortunately for us we can apply it in every areas of our lives.  For this particular lesson, we’ll apply to our most important relationships.  So I ask, what are you sowing?  What are you reaping?  What are your putting out?  And what results are you having?

A Person Reaps What He/She Sows
The term “sow” may throw off some of my non-church-attending readers.  “Sow” simply means to plant or in our case put off.  Think of life as your opportunity to sow or plant into a field that can and will produce anything that you’ve planted.  Let me help you use your imagination.

Let’s say I gave you an acre of land (representing your life).  You in turn plant seeds of corn.  In not many days, you will expect corn to begin to grow.  In a few months, you’ll have a harvest that is exponentially greater than the seeds you started with.  Well, contrary to what ordinary people know and live by, this is how your life works.

A person can only get the results that he/she puts out.  If you put out a lot, you get back a lot.  If you give off sadness, you get back sadness.  If you are a “joy” producer, you receive “joy” in return.  If you put off “sickness”, you get back “sickness”.  If you’re a “giver”, then you’ll receive.  If you’re not a giver, you’ll receive more shortages.  In your life and specifically your relationship you’re getting back what you put in and in many cases exponentially.

Work Like a Farmer
A farmer works very hard to make sure he gets the desired harvest.  He knows that whatever he planted, he can expect within a few months to receive a harvest from what was planted.  You have this same power over your life, your relationship, and anything else you have.  You’re a farmer, what harvest do you what?  All you need to do is sow those seeds.

In fact, you don’t have a right to the things you haven’t worked for.  You’re not going to get anything out of life that you didn’t work for or plant first.  You can’t reap what you did not sow.  Ask any successful person what it took to become a success.  Ask any couple who has a successful relationship, what it took.  You’ll find that it took work-planting, cultivating and lastly reaping a harvest.

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You do control every outcome of your life.
You might be one of those who believes what popular culture does, that life just happens.  There are things that just happen, but life isn’t one of them.  Life is a product of what you put into it.  It is the result of what you planted.  And because this is the case, you have control over what your future harvest will be.  In essence you have control over the outcomes in your own life.  If you want to see better results tomorrow, you need to start sowing the seeds (putting in the work) for those better results today.  You know what being ordinary is…sowing the same things today, but expecting different results.  Other philosophies would have you believe this is the recipe for insanity, but I believe it is the recipe for something much less complicated, being normal.

Whatever you’ve been putting into that marriage or that relationship is exactly what you’ve been getting in return.  This sowing and reaping process is in your control, so do what the uncommon do-control it.  Plant the seeds in your world that will produce the harvest (results) you’ve been longing for.

Question: what changes can you make today that will alter the results you’ll see tomorrow?
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