Imagine that you are a farmer, and it’s time to plant your crops. Suppose that you want to grow corn, so you plant squash seeds. By harvest time are you going to have corn or squash? Right. You’ll have squash. Why? Because you planted squash seeds.
It’s silly to think that you’ll get corn from squash seeds, isn’t? However, many today–including Christians–think that they can sow all the wrong things, and yet, get good results. I’ll admit that many times I’ve been in that group. I’ve thought something along the lines, “I’ll keep speaking unkindly now, but one day in the future I’ll just all of a sudden speak kindly.” Ever thought something like that? Debi Pearl says, “We live under a law of sowing and reaping that is as certain and unrelenting as death and disease.”
Hosea 10:12-13 says, “Sow to yourselves righteousness, reap in mercy…Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; because thou didst trust in thy way.”
In conclusion, if we sow bad things, we’ll get a bad “harvest.” If we sow good things, we’ll get a good “harvest.” And just remember, you’re going to reap later than you sowed, and you’re going to reap more than you sowed.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he 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.” (Gal. 6:7-8).
