Friday, March 15, 2013
“Now this I say, he who
sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will also
reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in is heart.” (I Corinthians 9:6-7a)
Hey ang, When we are
small and growing up we only stuck our finger in the fire once and learned that
was not such a good idea and never did it again .We learned that to sass mom or
dad was not a good idea. We learned to wise crack with the bully down the
street earned a fat lip and black eye and was not a good idea. Each of us
has our stories of woe, when we learned one of those irrevocable laws of nature
and do our very best not to repeat them.
But, as we grow older,
do we not become slower learners? I came across a neat little story where
the daughter of a business executive asked her daddy, who was preparing to go
out on the town, “Why do you wear that black suit and bow tie when you know you
will be deathly sick and have a splitting headache tomorrow?”
A short trip through
skid row with your children is not a bad idea; but only if you are not making
the same mistakes which earned a position in the gutter. It is always
amazing to me that there is no question smoking and boozing and drugs are not
good for your body and you will pay the piper for using them down the
road. But it does not matter how much the price of these life–destroying
things cost, people will sacrifice the finer things of life to purchase them.
I wonder, if someone
opened a “Reap What You Sow School of Higher Learning,” would anyone come? I
confess that there are many times when I stuck my fingers in the fire, even
though I knew it was going to be painful. But did you know the more you
stick your finger in the fire, the less the pain?
Paul gave fair warning
to all when he wrote, “God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this
he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the
flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the
Spirit reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:6-7). Notice, also he
adds a warning to the warning – ‘it ain’t going to happen in the twinkling of
your eye.’ He says, “Hey gang “don’t lose heart in planting the good
seeds, “for in due time we will reap….when we do not grow weary”.
(v.9)
Paul closes this bit of
truth with a challenge to those who love the Lord: “So then, while we
have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are
of the household of the faith.” (V.10).
Sooooo, it is time to
close this epistle and get about some plowing, disking, planting, fertilizing
and cultivating, but keep in mind God is the harvester.
Blessings,
Gramps
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