We continue with the theme:  “The things that are happening to us now, are the harvest of thoughts and actions sown in the past. Today’s thoughts and actions are seeds being sown for a future harvest.”. Here are three more principles...

4. You May Sow the Wind and Reap the Whirlwind

Hosea 8:7

A wife or husband thinks that a little flirtation is harmless, only to find it develops into a shattering of lives and relationships. We may reap more than we dreamed of from the seed we sow.

This also has its bright side: your small labour of love, seemingly such a small seed, might produce an unimagined harvest of good. You never know.

5. You Will Reap What You Sow

Galatians 6:7-8

No seed can produce except after its own kind. If we sow evil, we reap evil. You cannot sow to the flesh and reap from the Spirit. You cannot sow seeds of digression and reap true discipleship.

Of course the seed sown is not the harvest reaped. For example, flirting is not fornicating. But one grows out of the other, and therefore we must warn against the one whilst not accusing of the other.

6. You Reap Sparingly if You Sow Sparingly

2Corinthians 9:6

The more good we sow, the more good we reap. Let us be generous and bountiful in sowing good seed.