It’s reaping time! The seed was planted, fertilizer was added, the ground was watered and the weeds were plucked. We now have potatoes, corn, tomatoes, green beans, squash, cucumbers, and peppers. Potatoes produce potatoes, bean seed produces beans, tomato plants produce tomatoes, etc. Planting potatoes will never produce tomatoes nor will any other vegetables produce contrary to what is planted. We reap what we sow. 

This same principle applies to life. Like weeds easily grow among vegetable plants, sin creeps in as we grow in grace. To ensure we grow properly we must pluck the unwanted weeds. Plunking out sinful temptations and practices is necessary for our good growth in the Lord. 

Choosing to live contrary to God’s Biblical instruction, by allowing the weeds of sin to overtake our growth, will result in corruption.  Adultery ends in betrayal, mistrust, anger, and emotional pain. Unforgiveness, with a potential for bitterness, can eat away at our soul. Lying causes mistrust, deception, and frustration in those we lie to. Sowing to the flesh reaps corruption.

When we consider that we can be tempted to fall, we live meekly restoring our fallen brothers and sisters. This action will sow seeds of concern. Choosing to bear another’s burden is fulfilling the law of Christ. In doing so we sow seeds of compassion and care. Learning God’s truth and communicating what we have learned to others plants good seeds of faith. These are spiritual works that produce spiritual results in our lives and the lives we cultivate. To sow these seeds, we need a constant supply of God’s truth and God’s Spirit.  This supplies nutrients in the soil of our soul and water to our roots of faith. Sowing to the Spirit reaps life everlasting.

My husband has labored consistently to keep our garden. Hours of cultivating were required and he often felt tired, but he kept working. He completed his task and now it’s time to reap yummy garden goodness!

Let’s strive to sow to the Spirit and reap life everlasting which is far better than anything our earthly garden can produce.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians 6: 7-9