Why Are We So Much Smarter When We are Little Squeezers?

“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 purpose din his heart” (I Cor. 9:6-7a)

Hey gang, 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 to 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 head ache 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 he Spirit reap eternal life.” (Gal. 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