by Fred Bauer
When I was a kid living up in Ohio, I made extra money picking strawberries for a man who had a small farm on the edge of the town. He sold his produce from a little roadside stand.
Because I was paid by the quart, I figured the faster I picked, the more I will make. But the farmer informed me that there was another requirement.
"Don't just fill your boxed to the edge. Fill them till they run over and won't hold anymore" he said.
"I've always operated on the principle that if I charge a fair price and give my customers a little extra, they will come back again" and they did.
What I learned is that we reap what we sow...in every facet of our lives. Give the minimum, expect to receive the minimum. Give lavishly, extravagantly, and be rewarded in kind. No that that should be our motivation. But the law that says you can't out give the Lord is immutable. Jesus confirmed it when he preached, "Give and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back". (Luke 6:38)
It applies to strawberries - and the fruit of the spirit as well.
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