Reaping and Sowing

"Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what He sows." Galatians 6:7

We can sow life or destruction based on our yieldedness to The Lord. The Holy Spirit always directs us into fruitful sowing. If you are not being led by Jesus right now, you are setting yourself up for destruction. Thankfully God's grace can cover our fruitless sowing, but I want to give an example of God's justice when people sow with evil intent.

I did street ministry in Springfield, Missouri this summer. While downtown I met a women who was bleeding black blood, sick, and smelled of rotting flesh (sorry for the details...I was a little disturbed myself). But glory to God, He reminded me that greater is He in me! My faith was uplifted so that I knew I would not get sick myself. I talked with this women for a while, and she said that she and some friends had been casting spells and putting curses on people who wronged them.

As I heard this, I knew that she was unknowingly reaping those very same things she'd tried to sow in the lives of others. God was not mocked, He delivered justice instead. When this lady invoked evil in an attempt to hurt other people, she loosed an evil spirit. I believe that God in His sovereignty then redirected this spirit back to the sower. What a daunting example of this verse! Things like witchcraft cannot escape the power of God.

"You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified." Galatians 3:1

Praise God that He restricts the power of evil by limiting the damage done by evil spirits primarily to the sower. The Galatians were bewitched into believing otherwise and so are many people today. Those who sow evil do not understand the resurrection power of Jesus, nor the way that His blood covers us from receiving the curses of others. I am thankful for the hedge of protection God puts around His own. Even those who sow destruction, if they repent, can be spared from the results of their actions. God can, by His grace, subdue any power by the salvation found through His son.