YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW A young man called me the other day with a complaint. “Mr. Greg, why won’t people forgive you for your past?” I asked, “What has happened?” He replied, “I’m trying to rent an apartment and nobody will let me rent from them because of my criminal record. Even Christians, who are all about showing forgiveness, won’t give me a chance to redeem myself.” He’s been “clean and sober” now for six months and has paid his debt to society for the wrongs he’s done, but some of his past mistakes still follow him around. I explained to him, “Well, buddy, there’s this thing that God set into motion called ‘The law of sowing and reaping.’ You’ve sown a lot of bad seeds in your past, and now, even though you’re doing right, those seeds you planted are still springing up. He was sort of bewildered when I told him that, but, I went on to say, “If you’ll just keep on planting good seeds in your life, it won’t be long before you’ll start reaping from those good seeds you’re planting, and it will overtake all those bad seeds you’ve planted. It may take a little time, but that’s the way God set it up.” While it is true that there is such a thing as “crop failure,” when the bad seeds you’ve planted don’t spring up, the best way to counteract the bad seeds you’ve planted in the past is to start planting good seeds in the present, faithfully, every day. Harvest time will come soon enough if you don’t grow weary or faint. So, you can pray for crop failure on all your bad seeds of past mistakes, but the best solution to counteract the bad seeds you’ve planted is to start planting good seeds … a good farmer knows that. Galatians 6:9 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
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