Most of our young readers have been to the country and have seen the farmer planting seed in freshly plowed and cultivated soil. A little while before, the plow and the cultivator had gone over the ground and had broken it all up to receive the seed. Now in a little while when the sun is shining upon the golden grain, you will see the farmer reaping in the same field where in the springtime the seed was sown.
There is one thing you will always find: the very same kind of crop will be reaped in harvest, as was sown in seed in the Spring. If the farmer sows wheat, he reaps wheat. If he sows barley, he reaps barley. He reaps exactly the same kind of crop as he sowed; and so do we all.
Our lives have a sowing and a reaping time, and God solemnly says, “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). If you sow in sin, forgetting God, neglecting salvation, you must reap the same. If, however, in the springtime of life, you receive into your heart the good seed of the Word of God, and take the Son of God as your Saviour, if you seek to live for Him in those golden years, it will bring forth the good fruit of a life spent for and with Christ. The end will be a glorious eternity— “forever with the Lord.”
What are you sowing, dear young reader?
ML-09/27/1964