{"id":773,"date":"2012-04-17T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:22:35","slug":"lessons-from-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The idea of sowing and reaping has been on my mind lately. I once heard a speaker tell the story of a man who had been given a pot of dirt by a farmer with specific instructions for its care. The man made sure it received the right amount of water, light, and fertilizer according to instructions. After months of this routine and no signs of growth, the man told the farmer that he must be doing something wrong because nothing had happened after so many months. He was told to continue the routine. Months turned into years, and the man again sought advice from the farmer, and again was told to continue caring for the pot of dirt.\u00a0One morning after three years of diligent care, the man saw that the plant had grown three feet overnight.\u00a0 This continued day after day until it\u00a0became a\u00a040-foot tree.\u00a0What the\u00a0man could not see was that all of his\u00a0work\u00a0was creating a thriving\u00a0root system that had been developing over the long three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are times we may be working for something or praying for someone\u00a0without seeing results, but we need to remember that things are happening that we cannot see.\u00a0\u00a0Our own “pots of dirt” will one day turn into something incredible if we remain faithful. That same truth holds during those\u00a0times when we may see people\u00a0being dishonest or hurting and cheating others.\u00a0 We don’t see the damage to themselves that is taking place.\u00a0It may look like they already have pots of gold, but weakness and decay lie beneath. It says in Galatians 6:7: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked:\u00a0For whatsoever a man sows, that\u00a0will he also reap.” I’m thankful we can hold onto this promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea of sowing and reaping has been on my mind lately. I once heard a speaker tell the story of a man who had been given a pot of dirt by a farmer with specific instructions for its care. The man made sure it received the right amount of water, light, and fertilizer according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}