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1 Luke 6:38 (NLT)
If you give, you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use in giving—large or small—it will be used to measure what is given back to you."

Too Many To Count

1 Luke 6:38 (NLT)
If you give, you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use in giving—large or small—it will be used to measure what is given back to you."

For this "city-boy", growing food was a mystery better left to the equally mysterious class of people called farmers. It never occurred to me that maybe I could join this special of class of "food growers" by planting a garden in my back yard until I noticed a barren square of my neighbor’s yard. It had been cleared of all grass and vines and various other growing "whatnots" that I regularly mow down in my yard.  I watched carefully to see if my neighbor was trying to grow something.

Low and behold after a few weeks of watering and care, strange green things began to emerge from the ground.  They grew taller and began to sprout pitifully small flowers that you would not even give to a child.  "What a bust", I thought.  That is why such things are better left to farmers...no "green thumb" for us city folks to make things grow.

As the weeks continued I saw the miracle...little green things that looked like tiny vegetables growing where the flowers were...food!  And it was growing in my neighbor’s back yard!  "Man, I got to try this." If my neighbor could do it, maybe I could, too!  Off to the Home Depot, garden section, to buy four pepper plants.  I was going to be part of a miracle by eating the "food of my very own labor."

After weeks of care and watering of my "mini-square" of a garden, the first fruits came forth....six peppers, and two of them were already on one of the plants when I bought them, one plant had no peppers, and some phantom garden thief stole one of my biggest peppers! Not quite a "bust", but not very much to brag about...a lot of care and pitifully little fruit.  However, I continued to water the pepper plants because I could not bear to see them die at the hand of my neglect.  Maybe they would survive the mild winter here in GA and produce another six peppers...big deal.

Low and behold, four weeks later, all four plants "exploded" with those "pitiful little flowers." Another week later, PEPPERS!!  So many peppers, they were too many to count.  I was now part of that special group of people that can bear fruit you can eat.  All because I was faithful with my pepper plants, even when they did so little the first time around, I experienced the miracle.  I was faithful with a little and it grew too many to count.

Jesus promised he would measure back what we would give and the measure we receive back would be "too many to count." But, he did not say it would be easy or immediate.  It might even be disappointing for a season.  Later on, however, it would produce an “abundance,” if we would be faithful to His promise with the little measure he gave us at first.

Be faithful with what ever He gives you.

You can learn a lot from a pepper!

Matthew 25:19, 29a(NLT)
"After a long time their master returned from his trip and called them to give an account of how they had used his money...To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance.

by Pastor John

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