Good morning champion.
Welcome to another day where you can live and function in the God-established eternal principle of seedtime and harvest. What you sow you will reap.
Galatians 6:7 (NKJV)
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
· For me the key word in this verse is whatever because it declares that the principle includes whatever you sow in absolutely any area of your life. It is effective across every inch of the landscape of our existence.
Think about this, the eternal principle of sowing and reaping is relevant today in:
1. Your health and fitness
2. Your finances and wealth
3. Your relationships
4. And especially your spiritual relationship with your Creator
These are to name just a couple of areas. With these areas and any others, we can be certain that what we put in always effects what we get out. Think about the area of worship in your life. If you put your energy and passion into worshipping God it is amazing what you will get out of it, while the person standing next to you not entering in can leave the same experience with nothing
· Look at that same verse from the Message translation:
Galatians 6:7-8 (Message)
Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
Let us today again be motivated to make sure:
1. We are sowing throughout the garden of our life and that we are not mocking God and deceiving ourselves. We should be actively partaking in this dynamic principle.
2. We are happy with the seed we are using – that we are not going to end up with harvests of weeds but of wheat!
And finally, I love the last part of that verse about responding to God. Let our hearts ever be tender enough to hear the voice of the Lord calling us to sow and when we do hear Him may we be courageous enough to respond to it even when it does not seem to make sense.
Bless you.
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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