SOWING
AND REAPING

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.…

Our today is bound to all our yesterdays, and our tomorrow will be the sum of our present and our past.…

We may sow to the flesh if we will. There will be no interference from above. Thus to sow is our privilege—if we want to reap the harvest of corruption which must inevitably follow, a harvest no man in his right mind could deliberately choose. No, the snare lies in choosing the pleasures of sowing with the secret hope that in some way we can escape the sorrows of the reaping; but never since the beginning of the world has it been possible to separate the one from the other.

Job 4:8; Proverbs 22:8; 2 Corinthians 9:6–14; Galatians 6:7–8

The Next Chapter After the Last, 94, 95.