Jan 17 2009
The Laws of Sowing and Reaping
Something has been bothering me lately, though I only now deciphered what it is. I’m perplexed by what I see as blatant ignorance of the laws of sowing and reaping. It’s not like we aren’t intelligent. We can have IQ scores over the top, but we have believed a lie.
The intriguing thing about scriptural principles is–whether we like them or not they still govern our lives.
As a nation we’ve decided that rules don’t apply to us. We’re above the law. We over-spend and wonder why we must declare bankruptcy. We sleep around and wonder why we have AIDS. We murder for money and wonder why we’re on death row. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out, if we want to. The point, however, is that we don’t want to hear the truth.
It’s like the concept of a big sleep, where a fog of deception has replaced whatever discernment our grandparents had, and we tell ourselves, “Take your ease, my soul. Eat, drink and be merry.” All this as if there is no day of reckoning coming.
Well, we’re hurtling at light speed toward that day, my friends. Our lawmakers have made laws that defy God’s Word, laws to benefit themselves and their wallets, all on the backs of the taxpayers. Mortgaged our children’s future borrowing from China and thinking it will somehow all go away. And we voted them in! We gave them license to do whatever they wanted, because, like them, we don’t want to believe there will be an accounting. But the more telling question is–why would we vote for righteous judges and lawmakers when we don’t want laws to hinder our reckless ways? It all makes perfect sense if you examine it. But in the end, we will reap what we sow.
Galatians 6:7 says: “Don’t be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”
Ordinarily I speak more of spiritual consequences, and that applies here, too. We will pay with eternity for the decisions we’ve made about Christ. But even in the so-called real world, consequences are visible everywhere.
If we don’t pay our taxes, the government gets our home. If we don’t brush our teeth, we lose them to dentures. If we defy the speed limits we either kill ourselves or are ticketed for speeding. If we eat too much we gain weight.
We’ve been watching too many fantasy magic shows, thinking that if David Copperfield can make an elephant disappear, we can wave our hand over our foolishness and make the consequences go away. Even David Copperfield knows it’s not really so. It’s only an illusion, and in our case, a delusion.
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee, my friends. Time is short, and we must repent of every evil way, changing our direction, both physically and spiritually before it’s too late. A word to the wise is sufficient.
Because of His great love,
Nancy
