There are two economic systems at work in the world.

The first is buying and selling.

This is the transactional system we know well e-commerce, jobs, wages, exchanges. You give money, and you receive a product or service in return. It’s neutral. It can be used for good or for harm, but at its core, it’s simply an exchange.

The second system is sowing and reaping.

When you put a seed in the ground, you expect it to bring forth fruit.

When you give, you receive.

You are blessed going in, and blessed coming out.

In many cultures and earlier communities, giving and receiving were not separate actions they were the same transaction. People understood that to give was to receive, and to receive was to give. That mindset created provision beyond money.

The danger is getting stuck believing that buying and selling is the only way to live.

It’s not.

You can sow a seed—time, love, wisdom, service—and when it produces fruit, you can then enter the buying and selling system if you choose. One system feeds the other.

But when buying and selling becomes difficult—

when recessions hit,

when jobs lay people off,

when income becomes uncertain

sowing and reaping still works.

You can sow love and reap love.

You can sow generosity and reap provision.

You can sow service and reap opportunity.

I’ve lived in both systems. And the foundational one, the higher principle, is sowing and reaping.

I’m in this world, but I’m not governed by its systems alone.

Buying and selling may fluctuate.

But sowing and reaping never fails.

So I encourage you:

shift your thinking.

Learn how to live in a system where provision doesn’t depend solely on the market but flows from above.

Because even when buying and selling gets hard,

your provision can still be supplied.