You can’t plant seeds of nights and weekends surfing social media and harvest a crop of good grades. You can’t plant seeds of promiscuity and harvest a long and happy marriage. You can’t plant lazy seeds and harvest riches. You can’t plant smoking seeds and harvest healthy lungs. You can’t plant seeds of gluttony and harvest a healthy figure.
Preachers call this the “Principle of Sowing and Reaping.”
1) We reap WHAT we sow.
2) We reap MORE than we sow.
3) We reap LATER than we sow—(plant in spring and harvest in fall).
4) This principle applies to BOTH good seeds and bad.
5) If you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly (GO ALL IN).
“Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7.
This principle operates around us all the time in ways we do not see. For example, the man who drives too fast will suffer more than just traffic tickets—his car will wear out faster. The man who uses his phone to sin (porn, gambling, fraud, sexting), may find his phone falls apart faster than everyone else’s.
I know of a man who used his car to commit adultery. One day God showed him a vision of a sword piercing the hood of the car and destroying the engine. He begged God to let him make it to the family event to which he was headed. But when he left that event for his illicit rendezvous, the car would not start. The repair cost him a fortune. The seeds he had been planting with the car were harvested with the car. (Isn’t God creative?) Today I read “the Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds… so your land has become a desolate ruin.” Jeremiah 44:22.
But let’s focus on the positive. Do you need improvements? Better grades? Better friends? Better health habits? To read more books? PLANT GOOD SEEDS. And KEEP PLANTING—the harvest comes later.
In my life, TWICE—I changed the seeds I was planting and the harvest came six months later—ON THE DOT.
Plant good seeds and be patient.
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