At the start of a New Year we probably... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

The LORD said in his heart, ...While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 8: 21.22.

At the start of a New Year we probably sense more than ever that the future is like unknown territory through which we have to go. Some things that will come upon us may already be looming, but on the whole we have no idea what lies ahead for us.
One thing, however, we know for certain: that the change from summer to winter, or from day to night, will continue normally. Have we ever considered the constancy of this aspect of our lives to be a particular blessing of God's? God decided "in his heart" to so arrange the laws of nature that seedtime and harvest would not end in the alternation of the seasons, so long as the earth exists. Let us thank our Creator for this.

In the New Year, too, we shall experience seedtime and harvest. Let us not overlook the fact that many of the world's inhabitants suffer from famine; but this has nothing to do with the Creator's readiness to provide.

There is, however, another form of seed. Concerning this the Bible says: "He who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap eternal life" (Galatians 6: 8). Sowing this seed is something we have to do here and now; the harvest will come later. The seed itself we find in the Bible, the Word of God. It is the Word itself, which we keep with "a noble and good heart" (Luke 8: 15). May we, in view of the New Year that has just commenced, keep this in mind and ask the Lord to teach us to be true disciples, making good use of our time on earth.

Today‘s reading: Numbers 1: 1 - 21 · Matthew 1: 1 - 17