Knowing Him Daily

15.September.2026

Some of the hardest seeds to plant are the ones for the people closest to you. I once poured into a friendship for years, showing up in an emergency or a pinch, offering meals, offering my time, in ways that were not always returned the same way back. Gifts, gestures, the practical things, those went mostly one direction for a long time. But trust, the sharing of the deepest and most intimate things, that always went both ways, and for that I am genuinely grateful. The rest can fall away. Even when the return does not look seed for seed like the one I planted, there is still a return. That is real. That is heavy. And still, I plant.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 1 Corinthians 3:6-7

Not every seed you plant is one you get to watch grow, at least not right away, and not always in the way you expected. Some you plant, someone else waters, someone else tends, and someone else entirely gets the joy of the harvest. That used to feel unfair to me until I remembered I have also been on the other side of that. I have harvested seeds I never planted, reaped ground someone else broke open through years of prayer I will never fully know about.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7

Seeds return in kind. You never plant an orange seed and harvest a lemon tree. But you may not see the harvest in the same season, or through the same relationship, or in the way you originally pictured it. It still comes back to you, in time, pressed down and shaken together.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11

His word does not return void. Not mine. Not my effort. His word, planted through prayer, through presence, through every attempt at love that gets met with silence. That word is still working even when I cannot see it working, even when the silence on the other end feels like proof that nothing is happening at all.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9

In due season. Not my season. Not my timeline. His. My job is not to force the harvest or to keep score of how long I have been planting without seeing fruit. My job is to keep showing up in prayer, to keep sowing love even into ground that currently looks hard and unresponsive, and to trust the One who actually gives the increase.

If you are praying for someone who has gone quiet, who has walked away, who feels completely out of reach right now, you are not wasting your prayers. You are planting. Someone, maybe you, maybe someone else entirely, will get to see that harvest come in.

Whose ground are you still planting into, even when you cannot see anything growing yet?

If you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, you can do that right now. Pray this with me:

Dear Heavenly Father,

I confess that I have sinned, and I believe Jesus died for my sins and rose again on the third day. I ask Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.