Sowing and Reaping

6 The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Galatians 6:6-8

The principle of sowing and reaping is something that is oftentimes attributed to finances. Although this concept has been abused and used to manipulate it is still explicitly in the scripture. However, the interesting component to this concept that Paul talks about here in Galatians is that he writes about the principle of sowing and reaping in the context of sowing to the flesh or sowing to the Spirit. In fact, he expresses the guarantee of this principle by saying that God would be mocked if sowing and reaping was not true. “God is not mocked: for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap.” The inference is that if someone reaps something they do not sow that God would be mocked. In our current culture, we are incredibly distant from farming. We get our food from the shelves of a grocery store. Although quite convenient that dissociation from seed, ground, harvest does affect our mindset in a huge way. Especially in regards to the Lord. A continual sowing of the word into your life, the continual sowing of prayer in your day, and the continual sowing of surrender to the Lord is the guarantee of your harvest at a later date. The thing about sowing is that you never see immediate fruit. It takes time for that seed to grow. Answers to prayer sometimes come as a seed. That seed is something that has to be nurtured, watered and receive sunlight to grow! Don’t despise moments with the Lord that are “small” in nature. Don’t look down upon the importance of the repeated discipline of prayer daily. Don’t devalue the importance of sowing seed that doesn’t yield an immediate return. If I make a decision to organize my life to continually sow to the Spirit daily I will eventually live in a day that with my first step I sow and my second step I reap what I sowed yesterday.