Sowing and Reaping

‘BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED: FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO 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. AND LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING: FOR IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP, IF WE FAINT NOT.’ (GALATIANS 6: 7-9)

A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE

THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE THAT EXISTS FROM THE TIME OF CREATION, AND THAT IS, THAT ALL THINGS CREATED WILL PRODUCE SPECIES SIMILAR AND EXACT TO THE ORIGINAL.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN GENESIS 1: 11, SPEAKS OF ‘THE HERB YIELDING SEED, AND THE FRUIT TREE YIELDING FRUIT... AFTER HIS KIND (THE HEBREW WORD THAT IS USED IS ‘MIN’).

ALSO, IN GENESIS 1: 24 - 25, ‘AND GOD SAID, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE... AFTER HIS KIND, CATTLE, AND CREEPING THING, AND BEAST OF THE EARTH... AFTER HIS KIND: AND IT WAS SO. AND GOD MADE THE BEAST OF THE EARTH... AFTER HIS KIND, AND CATTLE... AFTER THEIR KIND, AND EVERY THING THAT CREEPETH UPON THE EARTH... AFTER HIS KIND: AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.’

THE CREATION OF MAN

A SIMILAR THOUGHT IN THE CREATION OF MAN IS PRESENTED IN GENESIS 1: 26, ‘AND GOD SAID, LET US (THE PLURAL GODHEAD) MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE (HEBREW WORD THAT IS USED FOR IMAGE IS ‘TSELEM’), AFTER OUR LIKENESS (THE HEBREW WORD THAT IS USED IS ‘DAMUT’).

‘SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM; MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM. (GENESIS 1: 27).

THE COMPOSITE PLURAL GODHEAD

THEREFORE, THE COMPOSITE PLURAL GODHEAD;
(FATHER - AB, SON - BEN, HOLY SPIRIT - RUACH-KODESH), THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE INTENDED FROM THE BEGINNING THAT EACH PROGENITOR WOULD BRING FORTH OF ITS OWN KIND AND ONLY ITS OWN KIND; IN SIMPLE TERMS, A COW TO BRING FORTH A COW, A FLOWER TO BRING FORTH A FLOWER, A BEE TO BRING FORTH A BEE, ETC., AND FINALLY, A HUMAN BEING TO BRING FORTH A HUMAN BEING, AND OF COURSE, THE ASPECT OF CONCEPTION AND BIRTH BRINGS FORTH A MALE OR FEMALE CHILD, NOT A LESBIAN NOR A HOMOSEXUAL, BUT RATHER A MALE OR FEMALE THROUGH WHOM THE BIBLICAL INJUNCTION, ‘BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND REPLENISH THE EARTH’ (GENESIS 1: 28B), IS CARRIED OUT TO THE PRAISE AND GLORY OF GOD.

IN SIMPLE TERMS

IN SIMPLE TERMS THE ALMIGHTY GOD INTENDS FOR HIS HUMAN RACE TO FOLLOW THE EDICTS AND PRINCIPALS ESTABLISHED LONG AGO IN HONOR AND REVERENCE THROUGH OUR SELF DISCIPLINED LIFE STYLE.

IN PRACTICAL TERMS

THERE ARE SOME RULES THAT WE MUST ALWAYS FOLLOW IN PRACTICAL TERMS IN OUR OWN LIVES.

FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE TO RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND THAT OUR ACTIONS AND REACTIONS IN LIFE WILL ALWAYS BRING FORTH CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES KNOWN AS THE REAPING AND SOWING FACTOR AS DELINEATED FOR US IN OUR TEXT IN THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.

SECONDLY, WE MUST BE AWARE THAT NO ONE, BE THEY KING OR PAUPER CAN EVER DECEIVE GOD NOR CAN HE OR SHE EVER MOCK GOD AND NOT SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES, FOR AS WE AS HUMAN BEINGS THINK WRONGFULLY AND THEN CARRY OUT OUR THOUGHTS WITH CORRUPT DEEDS, THEN WE MUST KNOW THAT OUR TIME WILL COME WHEN WE CERTAINLY WILL EXPERIENCE THE PAIN AND SORROW THAT WE HAVE SO WILLFULLY AND FLAGRANTLY SOWN, OR IN THE VERNACULAR, ‘THE SOWING OF OUR OATS’ WILL INDEED BRING FORTH IT’S REAPING.

WE HAVE A CHOICE

NOW, IN ALL HONESTY, WE DO HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN SOWING TO THE FLESH, OR SOWING TO THE SPIRIT. THE CHOICE OF FLESH WILL ALWAYS CARRY WITH IT THE ASPECT OF CORRUPTION, ALSO KNOWN AS DEATH, WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN WE SOW TO THE SPIRIT, THERE IS LIFE EVERLASTING.

Y’SHUA (JESUS) OUR LORD

Y’SHUA (JESUS) OUR LORD REMINDS US IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT (MATTHEW 7: 13-14), THAT ‘WIDE IS THE GATE, AND BROAD IS THE WAY, THAT LEADETH TO DESTRUCTION, AND ‘MANY’ THERE BE WHICH GO IN THEREAT:’, THIS OF COURSE IS THE SOWING OF THE FLESH (CORRUPTION), ON THE OTHER HAND OUR BLESSED LORD REMINDS US IN THE SAME TEXT, THAT ‘STRAIT IS THE GATE, AND NARROW IS THE WAY, WHICH LEADETH UNTO LIFE, AND ‘FEW’ THERE BE THAT FIND IT’, WHICH REMINDS US THAT THE SOWING UNTO THE SPIRIT WILL INDEED BE MOST BLESSED AND ULTIMATELY WILL USHER IN ETERNAL LIFE.

YOU PROBABLY NOTICED THAT THE WIDE AND BROAD WAY IS ENTERED INTO BY ‘MANY’, WHILE THE STRAIT AND NARROW WAY BY A ‘FEW’, NO WONDER WE READ THAT, ‘... MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN’ (MATTHEW 22:14).

IF YOU ARE STILL UNDECIDED

IF YOU ARE STILL UNDECIDED OR ARE STILL LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER, THEN PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING THAT THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH SAID IN MATTHEW 11: 28-30, ‘COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.’.

FOR THE BRETHREN

IF YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD AND ARE ABOUT TO ‘THROW IN THE TOWEL’ DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND YOUR CONTROL, THEN LISTEN. ‘LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING: FOR IN DUE SEASON (THAT IS, GOD’S TIME-TABLE) WE SHALL REAP, IF YE FAINT NOT.

MAY THE LORD HELP US TO CONTINUE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS NO MATTER WHAT OUR HARDSHIP MAY BE, FOR WE MUST ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT WE, ‘IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US.’ (ROMANS 8: 37).

‘THE LORD BLESS THEE, AND KEEP THEE: THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON THEE, AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO THEE: THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON THEE, AND GIVE THEE PEACE (SHALOM). (NUMBERS 6: 24- 27).