THE LIBERAL SOUL SHALL BE MADE FAT

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Everything God made was good. Time was regular and everything maintained its course. Even God, at the end of the sixth day, looked upon His work and said  “It was very good.” (Genesis 1:31). There was neither any insufficiency, nor was there any difficulty of any kind. But it was not too long when He was seen pronouncing a curse upon the ground. And this was not for any evil it has done. But Adam had sinned. He together with his wife, had disobeyed the commandments of God by eating from the tree they were commanded not to eat. Adam was now sentenced to a lifelong struggle. He would no longer have access to the fruits of the garden but would be sent out of the garden altogether to eat from the plants of the field, meant originally for the animals over whom he had been chief. For Adam and his descendants to eat in toil for all the days of their lives, because of his transgression, the ground would now not only lack the strength to bring leaves and fruits into maturity, thus resulting into it bringing forth thorns and thistles, seedtime and harvest would also be highly uncertain and unpredictable because of the curse pronounced upon the ground. And this was the kind of life Adam and his descendants were forced to live. This continued until Lamech, Noah’s father, prophesied that in Noah’s time “will they have rest from their work and from the toil of their hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.” (Genesis 5:29). And in Noah’s time, as spoken by his father, the Lord reduced the effect of the curse He had pronounced on the ground to give the people rest. Genesis 8:21-22 says 

“The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease."

(Emphasis added).

Prior to this time, there was no certainty that what you sowed would yield fruit. And if it would yield any fruit, you would not be certain when it would. The time of reaping was unstable and irregular. So it was a terrible life since no prediction could be made. But after this time, among some other things, seedtime and harvest could now be calculated. The plowman could now plow in hope. The principle of sowing and reaping was now firmly established. To now enjoy the strength and fatness of the earth, and live in abundance, you would need to follow this principle. This became the way out of a cursed life of toil and struggle. This principle became the way into material rest. The Bible clearly says in Proverbs 11:24

“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. 

(KJV)

If you now scatter your seeds on the ground, they will die and germinate to give multiple folds of what you scattered and you will thereby increase. The way to increase and abundance is now in scattering and sowing. But if you refuse the principle of scattering and sowing, and withhold your seeds, maybe because you think what you have is not enough for your satisfaction or because you are uncertain it will yield, there will be nothing for you to reap and have as your increase and you will therefore end up in penury. And in the next verse, verse 25, the Lord clearly tells us how we can scatter and sow our seeds so we can increase with the fatness of the earth.  Proverbs 11:25 says 

“The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.”

It is by being generous you sow. It is by your liberality you will be made fat. And fear not, but be assured that you will certainly reap what you give, even in more measures. 

There are people who reject this principle of giving and unknowingly to them, they have accepted the life that was before Noah’s time and are thus struggling with a curse. A curse of not bringing into maturity. They are suffering from all forms of disappointments and the uncertainties of life. No wonder they have not been able to enter into financial rest. Such people will always receive and never give. But Jesus says “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35). The Lord has provided a way out of the curse into a life of blessing. After He perceived the aroma of the sacrifice offered to Him by Noah, on behalf of the whole earth, the way He could bless everyone on earth, who will want to come out of struggle and enter into rest was for Him to establish the principle of sowing and reaping. It became the God ordained way to come out of the curse of retardedness, poverty and dryness. There is no other way made available. 

Also, do not think you do not have enough for yourself let alone having to give out. You should not eat all your fruits without keeping some as seeds. When you have consumed all, what will you have to sow? If you do not sow, you will have nothing to reap and then be in want. It might be insufficient, but even out of that insufficiency, sow. For that is the way to come out of that insufficiency. 

The Bible says Psalms 126:5-6

“Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.”

It is so certain. Even if you have to give in tears, give. You will come again with a great shout of joy and your increase. Leave the cursed ground and return into the garden by giving to others.