Sowing the Seeds of Love-The Surplus of God

Luke 3:10-11

And the crowds asked him, “What then should we do?” In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise.”

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I spy
tears in their eyes
they look to the skies
for some kind of divine intervention.
Food goes to waste!
So nice to eat,
so nice to taste.
Politician granny with your high ideals
have you no idea
how the majority feels?
So with out love
and a promised land,
we're fools to the rules of a government plan.
Kick out the Style!
Bring back the Jam! yeah, yeah.

And anything is possible when you're sowing the seeds of love.
Anything is possible sowing the seeds of love.

"Sowing the Seeds of Love" recorded by Tears for Fears written by Roland Olazabal and Curt Smith from the album by the same name

We live in a nation where we want what we want, and many of us have worked hard so that we can get what we want. We have earned what we have. Blaming anyone for wanting to keep what they have worked hard to earn is foolish. Yet we run into one problem, the difference between having and hoarding.

I want to keep what I got, but is that what God is calling me to do? In a word, no.

When the crowds asked John the Baptist how to follow the Lord so that they won't be chopped down like large trees whose only value is as wood for the fireplace, he told them to give. He told them to give generously out of their surplus. He told them if their needs are met they are to share with those whose needs are not. What good is food spoiled? The best place to store extra food is your neighbor's belly.

It's penny wise to store surplus in a silo. It's pound foolish to store so much wealth that you invite a replay of the French Revolution--a time when so many were so poor that the weak toppled the rich. John says share, when everyone has what they need life is better for everyone.

We need a divine intervention because we can't figure this out for ourselves. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Maybe, the the grace of God and the generosity of those with two coats we can all stay warm. Maybe, the the grace of God and the generosity of those with food to spare we can all be fed.

On a side note, those who say Government programs aren't doing this well--you've got a point. Often those programs are built neither from personal surplus nor from God's love. That's the point, we need to sow the seeds of love.