Gal_6:7-8
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
What of Today’s Verse…
We now revisit the category of “unpopular” promises. This set of promises concerns the absolute certainties of the reaping and sowing process. “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” In a world that often rejects accountability, these promises are very “unpopular.”
Many people are deceived on this matter. They wrongly assume that they will not have to face the consequences of the “daily seeds” they are planting. To hold such an inaccurate perspective is actually a mockery against God, who established this principle. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked.” The pattern of planting and harvesting is clearly demonstrated in the case of physical seeds. Whenever a farmer sows corn, he always reaps corn. He never reaps wheat. This pattern is just as certain in the realm of spiritual seeds. Every person is sowing spiritual seeds every day of their lives: either, seeds of “his flesh” or seeds of “the Spirit.” The harvest for each person is thereby determined: either, “corruption” or “everlasting life.”
Throughout the world (and, sadly, in many instances within the church world) seeds of flesh are sown day by day. In word, deed, attitude, or relationship, people are planting seeds that are characterized by this fleshly list in Gal_5:19-21. “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like.” These seeds bring forth a harvest of destruction. “For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption.” Such seeds diminish and destroy every life that engages in them. Such seeds bring multiplied condemnation and judgment for unbelievers. When believers are caught in such carnal indulgences for a season, these seeds bring forth spiritual dryness, fruitlessness, and lack of appetite for communion with the Lord.
On the other hand, far different seeds are available for sowing, and they produce a distinctly different crop. “He who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” The seeds that are planted by dependence upon the Spirit of God bring fruit as described in Gal_5:22-23. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
Let us Pray:
Heavenly Father, I deeply regret the fleshly seeds that I have sown. They always diminish my life and dishonour You. I desire to sow seeds of the Spirit. They always enrich my life and bring glory to You. I long to please You, not mock You, Amen.
Words of Wisdom
Christ Is A Living Person
Thousands of people get stranded after they have embarked on the great voyage of holiness, because they have depended upon the experience rather than on the Author of it.
They had supposed that they were thoroughly and permanently delivered from all sin, and in the ecstasy of their first experience, they imagine that they shall never again be tried and tempted as before.
When they step out into the actual facts of Christian life and find themselves failing and falling, they are astonished and perplexed. They conclude that they must have been mistaken in their experience, and so they make a new attempt at the same thing, and again fall.
Until at last, worn out, with the experiment, they conclude that the experience is a delusion, or, at least, that it was never intended for them, and so they fall back into the old way, and their last state is worse than the first.
What men and women need to-day is to know, not sanctification as a state, but Christ as a living Person.
Lord Jesus, give me Thy heart, Thy faith, Thy life, Thyself.
“I the Lord, the first and with the last.” –Isa. 41:4
