What are we reaping ?

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

Galatians 6: 7 (New King James Version)

By God’s grace we have come to the last day of this year. We all know how each of us started the year and how we stand today . Have we grown in the Lord stronger or do we find ourselves still struggling in sin ?

The word of God says ‘Do not be deceived. God is not mocked’. Some of us might be fooling ourselves by thinking we can keep on walking in a path of sin and still have the Spirit of God upon us forever. Some of us think we are clever and by certain technicalities we can fool God and say ‘I have done everything right…’

We read in verse 8, “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 have we been sowing ?? Have all our efforts been in sowing for the flesh ? Have our priorities and desires been all about the flesh ? None of us can plant a coconut sapling and expect grapes to spring forth as fruit. As bizarre as that is, so is to expect that we can continue living in the desires of the flesh and reap everlasting life ! Only those who sow to the Spirit will reap everlasting life.

Lets turn our Bibles to Revelation 21 : 7-8 , “”He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

He who ? Overcomes ! All of us are faced with temptations . But some of us overcome the flesh by the grace of God while some of us yield to the ways of the flesh. The word of God is very clear about what those who overcome will reap and what those who yield will reap.

You know what ? Its not yet too late ! If you are alive this moment, you know that it is only His grace that has allowed you to be here and that is for a purpose. I pray that we will set our lives right before our God and Savior and start sowing to the Spirit.

“Father , thank You Lord for Your grace which is our sufficiency. Lord please forgive us for what we have done in word, thought and action. Lord this body is meant to be offered to You as a holy sacrifice. Forgive us for making our lives into something that is not of You. Lord we pray that we will overcome ! Lord we pray that we will sow to the Spirit and will reap everlasting life. Lord we pray that we will never grow weary of doing good for in due season we shall reap…Lord may we never lose heart. We surrender our lives completely into Your Holy hands. Lord have Your way in our lives. May You increase and we decrease. In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we ask, we believe and we receive. Amen”

God Bless