What if some of the most important things you do in your lifetime produce fruit after your lifetime? We like to plant—and harvest. Pray—and see the answer, or give—and see the difference. But Hebrews 11 describes people whose faith reached further than their lifetime. They saw promises from a distance, and they believed them, they even embraced them, but they didn’t personally experience everything their faith was preparing. And God still calls that faith.

They understood something about seed. You don’t have to see the harvest to believe in the power of what you’re planting. Think about how much of your life exists because someone before you planted something they couldn’t fully see. Someone prayed. Someone sacrificed. Someone built. Someone gave. Someone taught. Someone believed God for something that eventually became part of your story.

Now it’s our turn. This entire series has reminded us that there’s more than fruit. Fruit is evidence of what God has already done—but inside the fruit is seed for what He wants to do next. That’s why your faith can’stop with the harvest you’re able to enjoy. There are people you may never meet who could someday benefit from seeds you’re planting now. There are children who haven’t been born yet. Families who don’t know yet how desperately they’re going to need Jesus. Leaders who haven’t discovered their calling. People who will someday walk into places we’re preparing today. Faith says, I may not see all of it—but I’ll plant anyway.

Someday every one of us will leave this life. But until then, you and I are here. And while I can’t see everything that God is going to do with my life—I have seed and I have an assignment, so I’m going to keep planting!

Faith doesn’t only plant for what I can harvest. Faith plants for what God can harvest.