How'd That Grow?

ALL – Psalm 65:1-13
ALL – Proverbs 23:24-25
OT – Isaiah 37:1-38:22
NT – Galatians 6:1-18

Interesting passage for the day: Don’t be misled; remember that you can’t ignore God and get away with it: a man will always reap just the kind of crop he sows. – Galatians 6:7, The Living Bible

Thought: I can never read this verse without examining my life. Can you? I can’t imagine coming across this verse and patting myself on the back to tell myself, “You should be good to go!” Even at my best, I fail. I fall short. Even when I’m sowing mostly the kinds of crops I want, I’m bound to be sowing something I don’t want, too.

On the other hand, we walk by the grace of God. So what I hear this verse saying is not that God’s going to surprise us one day with a bad crop of stuff we didn’t even know we were sowing. Instead, it’s a call to trust in Jesus’ cross and walk by His Spirit and rest in His loving grace toward us. It’s a call to hold nothing back from Jesus—not knowingly. It’s a call to humility and confession and repentance and obedience at the foot of the cross.

Question: Are you holding back anything from Jesus today—anything that you know of? Sow seeds of repentance and faithfulness rather than rebellion and waywardness.

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