EVER PLANT A garden…?

Or maybe just a few flowers in a bed or a plant in a pot?  Something makes it possible for the gardener to function, or a farmer to produce a crop is a “law” of nature.  “Law” really isn’t a very good word, but because it really is just an observation of the consistency of nature.  Whatever kind of seed is planted is the kind of plant that will be produced.  A farmer can know that when he plants wheat, that wheat is the plant that will grow.  It is not random or arbitrary.  Wheat seed produces wheat plants and corn seed produces corn plants.  Farmers and gardeners can count on it.

What is just as true, though not as readily recognized, is that this same “law” applies in all of life.  Whatever a person sows, that is what they will reap.  To think otherwise is not only ludicrous, it also mocks God.

We have two choices.  We either sow to the flesh or the spirit.  This same letter outlines the differences between living according to the flesh and according to the spirit (Galatians 5:16-18).  Sowing to the flesh is involvement in the “deeds of the flesh” (Galatians 5:19-21).  The consequence os involvement in these is corruption and exclusion from God’s kingdom (Galatians 5:21; 6:8).  This is the harvest resulting from sowing those seeds.  Just as surely as planting wheat seeds results in a harvest of wheat.  We can count on it.  (David Deffenbaugh, Bill McFarland)

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”  Galatians 6:7

–Mike Benson