Payoff

Preachers talk about harvest while business guys speak of payoff. Either way, I was reminded of an African one.

A few months ago a Zulu man came to our Swaziland conference and then to our conference in KwaZulu Natal the next week. He asked me to come by his church on the way out of the country to speak at a Sunday morning service.

Although I had not recognized the man, apparently I had met him years before as we pulled off the unfinished road to see him constructing walls on his church building.

I didn't really remember the earlier encounter, but as I stood in his finished building and spoke to hundreds of people, he reminded me of our first meeting and told me I had given him some money years ago (not much, but enough for him to remember).

It then dawned on me that I was seeing the fruit of my faith, the harvest from my seed as I preached in his church. This was nothing less than the payoff and the reward of God.

Someday friend, we will see a harvest. 'A man reaps what he sows".

Keep sowing good seed. And you will thank God too for payoffs!