SUNDAY MORNING REFLECTIONS: “Sowing To the Wind and Reaping A Whirlwind” Galatians 6: 7-8. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” The law of sowing and reaping is immutable, it is unchangeable. If you sow wheat you will get wheat. If you sow corn you will get corn, and if you sow watermelon seed you will get watermelon, and not pumpkins. These are the agricultural laws of sowing and reaping. There are gravitational laws of sowing and reaping. Throw a ball up into the air and the law of gravity will bring it down upon your head. What goes up must come down. In the moral sphere, the law of sowing and reaping will never fail. Dr. Billy Graham said in one of his 1990 crusades, “People sow their wild oats all week long, and then go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.” My friend you will reap what you sow in your life and it will come back to you double fold. It is a spiritual law you cannot avoid. Paul said, “He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption.” God has so arranged it that the sinner pays here, “Be sure your sins will find you out.” That is how we pay here. Here is how we pay hereafter, “The wages of sin is death.” God is not mocked for He sees you in the brightness of the noonday, and in the blackness of the midnight. On the other hand we can sow to the Spirit and reap a clear conscience and a clean heart with Christ, and then in heaven we can enjoy all that Christ has prepared for us. It pays to serve Jesus. How foolish for a man to think he can escape the judgment of God and live as he pleases with immunity. There was a certain preacher who visited the prison house, and when let in, he walked down the corridor of the prison hoping to strike up a conversation with one of the prisoner’s. He came upon a cell where the inmate was sowing a tear in his shirt. The preacher asks him, what are you doing, SOWING? Without looking up the prisoner said, NO, I’m REAPING! You shall reap what you sow in your own life! In my church one wintery Sunday evening a man came into the vestavew of the church. The ground outside had frost on it and was covered with ice crystals. I ask the man how I could help him, and he said he needed money to get down to Macon, Georgia. I looked down at his feet and he had no shoes or socks on. Where are your shoes I ask, and he said he had pulled them off to bathe and someone stole them. Why are you trying to get to Macon, I ask? He told me his wife was there in a hospital dying with aids and he wanted to get to her. He said he had aids himself and was dying as well, but that hers was worse than his, and that he had given her the disease himself by his own unfaithfulness with other women. Others are affected by the seeds sown to the flesh. He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. It is the immutable law of God! Yesterday my daughter went to pick up her children from their schools. While waiting in the school drive to pick up her youngest a motorist struck her in the rear end. The driver was preoccupied with a wasp in the car and his wife screaming. He told my daughter if she called the police he would be arrested because he had several outstanding warrants against him. She called the police for a police report, and the police ran the man and found the warrants. He was place in the back of the patrol car headed to jail while his wife and son stood on the curb crying. Be sure your sins will find you out. You cannot spit into the wind and not have the spit come back into your face. We reap in the lives of others what we sow. Yes, sin hurts us, it hurts God, and it often hurts those we love the most in this world. The Apostle is saying, “You can’t fool God, you can’t sin and get away with it.” Your sin will either catch up with you here, or it will catch up with you in the great Day of Judgment. There are no secret sins in any life because God knows all about them. Ask Kind David if we can hide our sin from God, and he will say, The eye of the Lord is in everyplace, beholding the good and the evil.” (Proverbs 15:3) Oh my friend, let’s be careful to sow the right kind of seed, and in that day we won’t have to worry. Amen? Amen! If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9) There Is A Fountain There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day, And there may I, tho` vile as he, wash all my sins away, Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains, And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. Wm. Cowper
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:15:45 +0000
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