Reap that which you sow

Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.

For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up. He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, And the rod of his fury will perish. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil; And the grapes, but you will not drink wine. You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies;. The wicked earns deceptive wages, But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward. You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;. Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions. Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.

Sowing and reaping don't just have good connotations. We can reap and sow bad things too. Often, when we sow discord and injustice, we see these come back to us. Vengeance is the Lord's, and nothing we do can be hidden from him. Luke : "Give, and it will be given to you.

Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.

Have you ever heard the term "measure for measure"? It comes from this verse. God wants us to have giving hearts. But if we give bad things to people, we will reap the consequences.

Sowing has good and bad connotations. Jesus curses the fig tree but we know the fruit of the Spirit is blessed. Paul even lists the fruit of the Spirit a chapter prior to the reaping what you sow passage. Reaping and sowing are essentially about blessings and consequences. Sowing with actions like drunk driving results in a DUI. Cheating on exam results in a failing grade. Choosing to wait until marriage for sex creates an unmatched intimacy with your spouse. Studying for exam results in a passing grade.

This is not the concept of sowing and reaping. God can even bring joy out of dire, even tragic, events. God can even produce joy with our negative choices too. The heart of the Gospel is being able to reap what Jesus has sown for us in his mercy on the cross.

We sow in one season, we reap in another. Sow a thought you reap an act. Sow an act, you reap a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap a consequence. Terrence L. Trezvant October 14, Trezvant July 28,