DEED SEEDS

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Galatians 6:7

Every man sows what he will later reap and reaps what he has previously sown. This is a law of life, says Paul, and we may as well know that we cannot beat it.

God will not be mocked. We are all sowing our own future, and the seeds we sow are the deeds we do. And, ironically enough, sometimes deeds we neglect to do or are afraid to do become seeds also and bring forth their harvest. For in the total scheme of things it often happens that deeds undone have as great power for good or evil as deeds actually performed.

The unbreakable link between harvest and seed was forged by the Lord God Himself at the creation. From Him went forth the word, "after his kind," and that word has linked together the seed and the harvest, the sowing and the reaping, from that day to this. Our today is bound to all our yesterdays, and our tomorrow will be the sum of our present and our past. That is the fact, and we may make of it what we will.

The sovereign God has permitted us to have a measure of conditional sovereignty, a mark of the divine image once given at the Creation and partially lost by the Fall.

Thought

Today presents unique opportunity—deeds to be done and deeds not to be done. There will be deeds performed. Will they be the right ones or the wrong ones? The closeness of our walk with God and our appropriation of His enablement are the determinants.

Prayer

Lord, help me to make this day special by doing what You want me to do and not doing what is not Your will.

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