A man reaps what he sows.

3/8/2012

Galatians 6:7- “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”

Interpretation: Farmer Joe spends all summer planting corn seed on his 5 acres of land. When the fall comes, farmer Joe is excited to go out and see what kind of vegetable he will reap from spending all that time planting corn seed. Maybe potatoes will grow, or carrots, or if he’s lucky a couple apple trees will even shoot up. Of course this is not how things work. I wonder why we believe it is any different with the seeds we sow? Even non-Christians have a concept of karma, where you get what you deserve, re-incarnation, where your new life lines up in accordance with how well you did in your previous one, or even justice, where the good guy in the movie should win and the bad guy should go to jail. How interesting is it that we have this blatant understanding that a man reaps what he sows, and corn seed will grow into corn stalks, yet we put our faith in something as silly as the universe existing due to completely random, dumb chance? If the very reason we were here is for unsystematic reasons, why would anything have order or make any sense? We can all relate to a man reaping what he sows. And God cannot be mocked. People can profess to be Christians and they can make all sorts of claims about themselves, but God sees the heart and tests its genuineness. An amazing thing about Christ is that he doesn’t just give us what we deserve, good or bad, for we could never do anything “good” enough to deserve eternal life, but he gave us beyond that when he decided to die for us 2,000 years ago. Now we can sow belief, or we can sow disbelief, but in the end we will all reap what we have sown, and no one is going to get apple trees out of corn seed.

Application: I need to sow more of God’s truth and love into my heart. I will do my daily devotion book today, and IBS the scripture it gives me. I haven’t touched it for about 3 weeks but I want to be good. And so I must sow the right kinds of seed in my day.