Harvest

One absolute we Christians like to shrug our shoulders at is that "you reap what you sow." God reinforces this truth throughout His Word. And it's a truth that is just as true for the godly as the ungodly--just as true for David as it was for Jezebel. For example, look at the life of Jacob. He lied and deceived His father with false pretenses, and he spent the rest of His life reaping the consequences. First, his uncle deceived him, and Jacob ended up marrying a woman he didn't love and working seven extra years to finally obtain Rachel. Then, his own sons deceived him by selling Joseph into slavery and telling Jacob that a lion had killed him. There is a deep sadness in the Lord's description of Jacob when he thought Joseph was dead. "And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted and he said, 'For I will go down into the grave mourning,'" Jacob spent many years mourning for a son who wasn't really dead. Mourning because his sons followed in his footsteps and deceived him just as he had deceived his own father, Isaac. Jacob planted the seed of deception and reaped the harvest--the wrong wife, seven extra years of labor, more than ten years of deep mourning and sadness. Some harvest, don't you think?
What are you and I planting today? At home? At work? At school? Think carefully before you plant the seeds. The harvest belongs to you. Guaranteed.