Predicting the Future

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This earth was created as a place of law and order. If you know its laws, you can use it to your advantage. For example, if you plant radishes, you’ll get radishes. You don’t expect pansies. If you plant wheat, you know you’ll reap wheat. This is nature’s law, and it cannot be broken. The One who wrote that law for nature wrote the same law for us.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:77Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7)).
You are positive of getting corn if you plant corn, but you may think you can sow one thing in your own life and reap another. God says, “Be not deceived.”
You may think you can live for yourself. Sure you can—but you’ll also die by yourself. You know: plant corn, get corn.
Can you think evil, read evil, hear evil or watch evil without these becoming a part of you? Sow the wind, and you’ll reap the whirlwind!
Perhaps you haven’t done any outstanding evil. Getting ahead in the world is most important for you. Well and good. But then don’t expect it to benefit you when you leave this world.
“For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:88For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:8)).
How can you reap life everlasting?
A doctor, and anyone else with a goal in life, has to be willing to sow many long hours of preparation to reap the rewards of his profession. Is it not a tremendously good investment to “sow to the Spirit” for the few years we are on this earth, in order to reap life everlasting?
What is sowing to the Spirit? Doing whatever the Spirit of God demands; living a spiritual life; desiring only to please God.
What pleases God? First of all, one must believe on His Son, Jesus Christ, who died that the justice of God might be satisfied. God gave His Son for you. It grieves Him when you refuse to believe on Him.
Following this, whatever we do must be not for self, but for God’s glory. Does this seem stifling and restricted? It is truly the only happy way to live. How to live by the Spirit may be found in God’s book, the Bible: “Choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:1515And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15)).
What’s your choice? Not living by the Spirit is, automatically, living for self. If your goal is merely the things of this life, that is all you will reap—things for this life—and after death there will be everlasting loss, everlasting remorse. God isn’t mocked.
Accept Christ today. God requires it of you, but He promises a tremendous reward as well: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)).
That’s your future. You will reap what you sow!