Earlier today I was somewhat considering a lyric talking about reaping what you sow. It was in the context of sin and I was thinking about how my life has seen this worked out in many, many, many ways. But this in the bigger discussion I have been having internally in what it means to "sow to the flesh" or to "sow the Spirit" in which Mr. J. Rizzo says in a song "I am doing one or the other all the time". Then today I was given a tiny, yet lovely revelation:

I was doing my thing at work and there was a a wild over grown area near our ponds filled with ripe blackberry bushes. In the midst of all these I seemed to find the bushes with the biggest clusters and proceeded to have my fill of the good fruit. I thought, "What a treasure just for me!" And the Lord seemed to say,

"Eric, see how the grace in My love is so good you have reaped where you have not sown? For that matter, no one has sown these seeds into the earth and watched over their fruits carefully but Myself, for they are wild.

Yet this is just a manifestation of a greater mystery: how you reaped a measure of My grace, and My mercy today, even when you sowed your portion yesterday into the flesh. Still greater is how you were unable to sow life for yourself because you were dead in sin but I sent my Son to sow it for you with his life and you have reaped the the most precious fruit, again, where you did not and could not sow."

Is this not so good?!?