It’s day 7 of the series 31 Days of Lessons Learned from My 20’s. If you want to read all the posts in this series, you can find every post listed here. If you want to have all the posts delivered to your email inbox, subscribe here.

I got my first “real” job when I was 22 years old. Having just graduated college, I held my Early Childhood Education degree in my hand and went from school to school delivering my resumé. That summer teaching jobs were hard to come by. Finally, a sweet white-haired principal in small-town Loganville, Georgia gave me a job teaching 5th grade.

My checking account just got heftier. Of course , compared to many other professions, I was not making tons of money. But it sure beat the hourly wage I made working at Chick-fil-A throughout high school.

So I did what any girl-with-a-first-job would do. I went straight to J. Crew (I still LOVE J. Crew!).  I bought a pair of clogs. Clogs that I still have and, believe it or not, still wear to this day.

And I opened a J. Crew credit card account. Because after all, why not? You get 15% off AND don’t ALL girls have a credit card to their favorite store?

I entered my 30’s with some hefty credit card debt. Not all from J.Crew, but debt all the same.

You reap what you sow.

But we don’t just reap what we sow in regards to money.

We do it in relationships, too.

Our culture tells us that our 20’s are “our time”. Our time to live for ourselves, be spontaneous, have fun, try everything, or everyone, out.

However, no one tells you that you carry all of your experiences with you. No one tells you that the “bad boy” you date now may become your husband. No one tells you that you’ll remember those choices.

These are the years of sowing.

Regardless of how badly you want the clothes or the car or the house or the husband or the babies, sow seeds instead of try to reap before it’s time.

How do you sow seeds?

Simply put, be all that GOD intends for you to be. 

Stay out of debt. 

Say “no” to the super hot guy that is not God’s best. 

Study God’s Word – for real – not just as a check mark. 

Serve others!!! 

Sacrifice your own pleasures to help those in need. 

Seek relationships with Godly women and mentors.

Saturate your mind with truth.

You see, unless God calls you to a time of reaping, it’s not your time to reap. 

However, those sowed seeds will reap you the biggest blessings you could ever have imagined. 

Today, don’t get impatient. Just get busy sowing and look forward to the glorious reaping to come!

What is one way you are sowing right now? 

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