“The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (II Corinthians 9:6).
A man became disenchanted with his life in the city. He decided to move to the country and start a chicken farm. He bought a farmhouse with some land around it and, after he had moved in, he bought 200 baby chicks. But they all quickly died. He bought 200 more baby chicks but, again, they all died a short time later. Puzzled and distressed, the man wrote to the county agricultural agent and described everything that had happened. “I want very much to be a successful chicken farmer,” he concluded. “Therefore, can you tell me: Have I been planting the chicks too close together or too deep?” Whereupon, the county agent wrote back and said, “I can’t answer your question until you send me a soil sample.”
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