It's remarkable how the Spirit of God impresses a timely message through those passages we've read over and over again. This morning I was finishing up a devotional reading of Galatians, coming across the familiar principle of what we sow, we will reap. What struck me this time, though, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, discerning the thoughts and intentions of my heart was the harvest of the sowing. "For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life." (Gal. 6:8)
What jumped out at me was the word "corruption." I looked it up in the Greek and the range of the word has to do with anywhere from destruction to deterioration. What I sowed had direct relationship to the integrity, the wholeness, the holiness of my being. The mirror the Spirit was holding up to me in His Word showed some distressing things for a child of God, both in what was growing and what was not growing. And it was my fault, the consequence of the principle of the Christian life to which the Spirit was calling my attention.
Of course, the next question naturally followed and it was this the Spirit impressed upon my heart with great conviction. Just what am I sowing? As I see my inclination to indulge in sin and my cavalier attitude about my actions, what have I sown that those weeds have sprung up and even thrive? How am I denying myself eternal like, not in the sense of salvation but in the sense of abiding in Christ for good fruit and living out the life of the gospel on a daily basis?
2 comments:
I relate to this. I've often meditated on "Am I living the life that Christ died for me to live?"
Very convicting.
Great way to put it
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