God is so cool. He really made life simple. We make life complicated. His life strategies go all the way back to the farm, The Garden of Eden. After “He created” the Garden and man, He “took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Genesis 2:15.

Principle 1, God owns the farm. Adam, the first man was a sharecropper. My dad was a sharecropper. A sharecropper rents the field and works the land. At harvest, the owner gets a flat amount or a percentage of the harvest…right off the top. Then the sharecropper pays all the crop cost hoping there will be something left over for the family. With this in mind, we now see how God connects Malachi 3:8, “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.” Trouble begins when we begin to think we own the farm and do not pay the owner of the field.

Principle 2, God is in charge. Adam was “put in the garden” to “work it & keep it”…(manage) the farm. God, the owner also had the perfect plan and ways to farm. God is in charge today. He has a plan for each of us. He tells us in, Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” The Creator of Heaven & Earth, the owner of our farm gives us this promise, “His ways are always prosperous; your laws are rejected by Him; He sneers at all His enemies.” Psalm 10:5. God gives a choice His Perfect Way or our flawed way.

Principle 3, We Chose What We Planted. God gives us a choice what we plant. The world tells us we can live a life planting weeds and identity our harvest as corn, wheat…whatever we choose. But here is the unchanging truth. “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7. If a person plants weeds, he will always harvest weeds. It’s not complicated. My dad intentionally planted rice in some fields and soybeans in others. He was never surprised by what came up or what he harvested.

Like the Bible, The Law of the Farm remains unchanged since the beginning of time. Unaffected by opinions, cultures, & world events.

How is your crop?