“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7
This principle is found throughout the Bible. We call it the Law of the Harvest. For the most part, this law only applies in the eternal, and when seen in the temporal, you usually cannot make the connection between sowing and reaping.
In extreme cases, like a person jumping from a tall building or having sex with one who has a venereal disease, you can probably say he is reaping what he sowed. Most of the time, however, God does not allow you to make the connection. You cannot say that financial loss in a business resulted from a failure to ascertain and do the will of God, any more than you can say that financial success indicates God’s pleasure.
God does not want people, Christian and non- Christian alike, to make the connection in the temporal. For this reason sociologists cannot agree that violence on TV produces yiolence in society; such connections are difficult to prove. I suggest that God does not want them proven. He wants us walking by faith, knowing from our conscience rather than experience that our sense of what is just demands the existence of the Law of the Harvest.
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