Behaviors have consequences. Smoking can lead to lung cancer and other diseases. Obesity can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, and more. Poor eating habits can produce lifelong health problems. Promiscuity may spread disease or produce unwanted babies. Perjury may result in jail time. Laziness, wasting money, and mismanagement can bring poverty. Failure to study can produce incompetence. DUI’s can bring death to the driver and his or her victim. We want quick fixes and pills that rescue us from our unpleasant reaping. However, reaping has a positive side. Good habits, choices and intent produce good character. Wise choices can result in prosperity. Self-discipline and hard work may produce more than native ability. All this, and much more, demonstrate the law of sowing and reaping. Sow good stuff.
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he 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. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:7–9 ESV).
