Title: The Harvest Life / Galatians 6:7-9
Humans are like earthenware. If you have evil in your heart, you become a devil, and if you have good, you become a saint. What is planted in a person's heart determines his character and destiny. There is a very common but famous saying in the Bible.
“As You Sow, You Will Reap”
There are four principles in life's harvest.
1. It must be planted.
It is foolish and foolish to believe that nothing will be planted, but only to be produced.
A certain master went to another country and left some responsibilities to his servants.
He gave one man five talents, another two talents, and one talent one talent.
And after a while, the owner returned and settled the accounts. The person who received the five talents and the two talents made double the profit, but the person who received the one talent buried the one talent in the ground and brought it out to make excuses. “Lord, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter” (Matthew 25:24). This means that you want to reap without toil, and your heart is evil.
It is also evil because he neglected his little responsibility. “God is not scorned; whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7).
God is never viewed as unfair by humans.
2. Seeds
If you sow good seeds, you will reap good fruits, and if you sow bad seeds, you will reap bad things.
The seeds can be planted at will, but the harvest is not at will. Whether you want it or not, you must reap what you sow.
3. Wait
It's not about planting today and reaping tomorrow, it's about reaping in the fruiting season. Don't be in a hurry, just wait.
The fruits of my life may also be reaped after I die in one year or ten years in some cases. “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest, if we do not grow weary” (verse 9).
Whether we act in righteousness or in sin, the fruit will surely come.
4. Character is sowed and reaped
“He who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit” (verse 8). If you have Christ in your heart, you will reap beautiful fruits, so you must plant goodness, righteousness, mercy, and love in your heart.
“He that goes out weeping to sow seed will surely return with joy, carrying the sheaf” (Psalm 126:6).
Even if you sow in this world and die without seeing the light, going to God and reaping is martyrdom and martyrdom of faith. We must go before God and have the faith of a martyr who endures silently, thinking about the glorious fruit.
“Do not deceive yourself, for God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows he will also reap. He who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but whoever sows to the Spirit will also reap eternal life from the Spirit. Do not grow weary, for at the proper time you will reap a harvest if you are not weary” (Galatians 6:7-9).