Passage: Galatians 6:6-10
Points:
1. Whatever you sow, you will reap. If you sow the flesh you will reap corruption. If you sow the Spirit, you will reap eternal life.
2. Do not grow weary in doing good because in due season you will reap, if you do not give up.
3. Every opportunity you have you should do good to everyone, especially those in the faith.
Personalize:
There is a natural and spiritual order to life. What we sow we will reap. This is true in agriculture, business, relationships, and in our spiritual lives. If you sow a corn seed you will not get a bean plant, you will end up with a corn plant and harvest. What we sow in life we will reap in this life and the life to come. As many would say: “what goes around comes around”.
“Our present time is seed-time: in the other world there will be a great harvest; and, as the husbandman reaps in the harvest according as he sows in the seedness, so we shall reap then as we sow now. (Matthew Henry Commentary)”
Another principle is you will always get more than you sowed. One seed will result in a plant that will yield many other seeds. It is amazing that when you plant one small seed it will result in a plant that will produce many other seeds. When we sow good things more good will come in return. If we sow seeds of evil it will multiply and the consequences will multiply. When we sow seeds of the flesh we will reap corruption that affects us, our family, and others around us. “Sin will take us further than we want to go and hold us longer than we want to stay.”
We have an opportunity to sow good seeds into the lives of others. We can sow seeds of encouragement, care, insights, wisdom, and concern. Paul instructs us “not to grow weary in well doing because in due season we will reap a harvest”. It is easy to become cynical in today’s environment, but in the midst of a negative and careless society we can sow seeds of goodness to others around us. If we persevere, it is promised we will reap a good harvest, if we do not give up.
Prayer
Lord give us a vision of the harvest so we will not give up on sowing good seeds into the lives of others.
