Have you ever noticed how we avoid anything that takes a long time?

We don’t mind speed… in fact, we demand it. Fast food. Fast shipping. Fast results. If Amazon doesn’t offer 2-day delivery, many of us won’t even buy it. We hate slow traffic, slow lines, slow processes… and honestly, we avoid slow conversations, slow healing, and slow change.

But here’s the tension:
God works promises through processes. And processes take time.

Most of us have missed God-given progress simply because impatience talked us out of what was actually working. Slow doesn’t feel spiritual. Gradual doesn’t feel glorious. But faith—biblical faith—is far more like farming than instant success.

The Roblox Version of Life We Wish We Had

Recently I asked my son Rylen about his favorite video game, Grow a Garden.
I was shocked: the entire game is about planting seeds, waiting for them to grow, and selling the crops. Kids go crazy over it—collecting rare seeds like maple resin and crimson thorn.

The only reason the game is fun is because the process is condensed.
Seeds grow in minutes, not months.

And if we’re honest, that’s how we wish life worked.

We want the Roblox version of legacy—leveling up in minutes, instant impact, no resistance, no waiting.

But real legacy doesn't work like that.
If you want to change the landscape of your life—of your family—of your future—it takes small, consistent investments over time.

You rarely feel the change while it’s happening.
You don’t see the progress day by day.
And that’s when we start to wonder:

“Does it even matter?”
“Is this changing anything?”
“Is all this sowing actually working?”

Scripture answers with a resounding yes.

The Law of the Harvest

“Whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” – Galatians 6:7

God built the universe on this principle.

1. Whatever You Sow, Will Grow

You can’t sow comfort and expect calling.
You can’t sow dysfunction and expect a healthy home.
You can’t sow irresponsibility and expect blessing.

A seed seems small, but it has exponential potential.

A single apple seed can produce a tree that produces hundreds of apples every year—each apple containing new seeds that could multiply into thousands of trees in a decade.

One seed becomes a forest.

This is why the seeds you sow today matter more than you realize:

• Your habits
• Your patterns
• Your words
• Your financial choices
• Your spiritual disciplines
• Your decisions

Seeds become landscapes—slowly, quietly, inevitably.

The person with deep spiritual roots didn’t stumble into maturity—they sowed Scripture, prayer, worship, and obedience.
The couple with a healthy home didn’t get lucky—they sowed grace, time, forgiveness, and healing.

The generous person didn’t wait to feel rich—they sowed stewardship.

The best time to plant a tree was decades ago. The next best time?
Today.

2. Whatever Is Growing… Was Planted

Jesus tells a story in Matthew 13 about a field where wheat and weeds grew together.

The farmer planted good seed.
But at night, the enemy planted weeds—tares—right beside the wheat.

At first, everything looked the same.
But over time, the truth showed up.

Some of us are living in fields where someone planted:

• rejection
• disappointment
• fear
• labels
• wounds
• offense

Sometimes we planted it.
Sometimes the enemy planted it.
Sometimes others planted things in us long before we knew the difference.

And our first reaction is to rip the weeds out immediately.
Fix it now. Solve it now. Change it now.

But the farmer says:

“No… you’ll uproot the wheat if you do. Let them grow together until the harvest.”

Your life will always be a mixed field.

Good and bad growing at the same time.
Breakthrough and frustration.
Healing and struggle.
Wheat and weeds.

The enemy doesn’t need to burn your field to rob your harvest—he just needs to make you reactionary instead of visionary.
If he can keep you pulling weeds, he can keep you from planting good seed.

What you focus on determines what grows.

3. What You Cultivate Creates Your Legacy

Sowing starts something.
Cultivating grows it.
Legacy is the result.

Before God ever asked Adam to preach a sermon, sing a song, or lead a meeting…
He gave him a garden.

“The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.” — Genesis 2:15

Your first calling—my first calling—isn't consumption.
It’s cultivation.

• Work the field you were given.
• Watch over the seeds God placed in your hands.
• Protect the soil of your soul.
• Water the things God wants to grow.

You can’t control everything that gets planted in your life.
But you can choose what you cultivate.

Legacy isn’t about perfection.
It’s about faithfulness.

It’s about staying in the garden long enough to see fruit.
It’s about refusing to quit when the process feels slow.
It’s about trusting that God remembers every seed, every sacrifice, every act of obedience.

And He does.

Don’t Cancel Your Own Harvest

The enemy doesn’t want you to know this:

The only person who can cancel your harvest… is you.

Not the enemy.
Not your past.
Not your environment.
Not your weaknesses.

Just you—in the moment you give up.

“Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap… if we do not give up.” — Galatians 6:9

You might feel like your field has more weeds than wheat.
You may feel like you’ve sown years of disappointment.
You may feel tired, discouraged, or tempted to quit.

But hear this:

If you keep sowing… you will see a harvest.
If you keep watering… God will bring growth.
If you keep cultivating… God will change the landscape.

Right here.
Right now.
In this field.
In your family.
In your future.
In your legacy.

God is faithful.
And you will reap—
if you don’t give up.

Want to hear the full message?
🎧 Catch “Grow a Garden” from our Love What You Leave series on the Genesis Church podcast or YouTube channel.

By Pastor Rory Chance – Genesis Church