Always remember this: true prosperity flows from the spiritual to the physical and then from the physical to the material. The seed of true prosperity is the truth. Truth can never change or fail; it is backed by principles, knowledge, and experience.
Knowledge is inferior to wisdom, and wisdom is inferior to truth. The truth is far from anyone who stops at knowledge or wisdom. Truth has to be experienced.
Knowledge is someone else's documented truth; wisdom is your application of that knowledge. Truth is the result of your own experience, which makes you a witness. When you have more witnesses, that truth becomes established.
If the truth is that "as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest shall not cease," and if "in the mouth of two or three witnesses, truth is established," this explains why witnesses are the most credible evidence in a court of law.
Let’s take this conversation to the next level by identifying our two or three witnesses. The first witness will be agriculture, the second witness will be reproduction, and the third witness will be business.
First Witness
Agriculture is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of seedtime and harvest. Learning and experiencing it makes the concept more vivid. I believe we all need to plant and grow something. Recently, I grew peppers with my aunt in her home garden, that was an experience that helped me understand truth.
There is so much to unpack. Consider how just one tiny seed is buried in the ground, decays, and becomes invisible. It could be presumed physically dead. Relying solely on scientific observation to call it dead is a form of sticking to knowledge.
If the seed is dead, did it resurrect? Or is it only a physical death so that it can change form and return first as a root, defying gravity, pushing out a stem, and growing into a tree with fruits? Inside these fruits lies the same seed you planted in multiplied form—enough seeds to grow a forest, and the cycle continues.
The fragility of the farming process is evident; your care during the planting season can either enhance or hinder growth. Moreover, there are aspects of this process that you cannot control. The ultimate work of germination and increase occurs without your active observation and participation.
Second Witness:
Reproduction follows a similar pattern. As a mother, I can speak about human reproduction. The fact that one invisible seed connects to an invisible egg to form the smallest identifiable human entity—also invisible to the eyes—could be presumed alive or a mere clump of cells by the same scientists who deem a buried seed as dead.
While there is debate over whether a zygote is alive or not, there’s no question that some parts of the sperm die during fertilization. According to excerpts from the National Institutes of Health, "during fertilization, the acrosome, a part of the sperm head that contains enzymes necessary to penetrate the egg, essentially 'dies' or is used up once it releases its enzymes to break through the egg's outer layer, allowing the sperm to fuse with the egg; this is known as the acrosome reaction."
My take is this: anything that can increase has both a physical and spiritual reality. Transformation requires some form of physical death of the old to give way to the new. If you call it dead, you are only aware of the physical aspect; if you call it change, then you are spiritually intelligent. Does this apply to your creativity, business, marriage, and relationships?
Back to human reproduction. Do you see how seedtime and harvest apply here? One man and one woman can be responsible for producing billions of humans. The same individual with the ability to reproduce can also truncate the process based on how they care for the seed during the planting season. Once they play their part, the growth phase and harvest are generally guaranteed, despite aspects that they cannot control or explain during the growth phase.
Third Witness:
Finally, business. Business is, first of all, spiritual—a potent seed that shows up as ideas in your mind. Those ideas may initially be limited to your current experiences. Hence, experiences usually stemming from failed attempts could guide you to discover these potent seeds.
Everyone possesses that seed, but not everyone will plant it. Typically, the ambitious are the ones who do. However, the meaning of ambition has often been misrepresented. You are more likely to learn how to manage or administer a business than how to create one because an idea is not something you study; it is something you already have. Your circumstances can inspire you to unearth it.
Just like agriculture and reproduction, what you do during the planting season could make or break the development of your business idea. In agriculture, growth takes place on Earth, and the Earth feels the pressure. In reproduction, the process occurs within the female, who bears the discomfort. In contrast, business seeds germinate in the mind, leading to a mental experience that can break, mold, and build you.
Consider the physical death experience that occurs when a seed is planted or when some parts of the human seed die off to give birth to a new one (the zygote). This means you will experience a change on your journey from poverty to prosperity.
The big question here is, are you willing to change to create prosperity?
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