What Goes Around Comes Around

Galatians 6:7 NLT states "Don't be misled - you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant." This week, repeatedly I have been reminded of the simple words "God is not mocked."

My parents always taught me the life principle that we "reap what we sow". If we sow evil, we reap evil. If we sow good seed, we reap a good harvest. The Word of God is still true today, as it were when the Apostle Paul penned these words in Galatians 6:7.

The Message Paraphrase reads in Romans 2:9-11 "If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you're from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended. But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up. Being a Jew won't give you an automatic stamp of approval. God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own own mind."

While we are not saved because of our works, and it is only God's grace that any of us are saved, God is not mocked. If we do evil we reap the consequence. But if we sow good seed we will reap the benefits.

So the Apostle Paul sums it up in Galatians 6:9 (NLT) when he says, "So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up."

What goes around comes around, what goes up must come down, and what we sow we will also reap.