Book Review: The Seven Laws of the Harvest by John W. Lawrence

The Seven Laws of the Harvest by John W. Lawrence.
Did you know that you were a seed and that you can actually plant yourself strategically?
Lawrence shows that God has established laws within nature. Laws that are impersonal and emotionless. They have no race, nationality or tribe. Anyone who obeys them will seen the results.
The phrase: "we only reap what we sow" is often used with a negative connotation! While it's true that if you sow a bad character you will surely reap troubles in abundance, it is equally true that if you sow a good character you will also reap goodness in abundance. Either way, it's important however to always keep in mind Law #3: We reap in a different season than when sow.
Lawrence discusses 7 laws in total and shows that they all go together.
Two extracts from the book :
1. "All life comes from antecedent life; for as Louis Pasteur has adequately demonstrated, there is no such thing as spontaneous generation. What we reap, then, was planted either naturally or purposely, either by God or man, for either positive or negative results (from Law #1)"
2. "No fact is more significant and sobering. When we sow the wind, we reap the whirlwind. When we sow good, we bountifully receive from the hand of God who is debtor to no man; for the harvest is always greater than the seed planted. If this were not the case, no farmer would plant anything. (from Law #4)"
So, whatever you are doing, whether you know it or not, you are planting something and you will surely reap at a later date.
I recommend it for reading and application.


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