A Harvest Is Coming

One immutable fact in life is that we always "reap what we sow."

Galatians 6:7-8 NKJV [7] Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. [8] For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. 

Actions produce results or consequences whether it be sowing good things in our lives or bad things. When we sow whatever into our lives, we always have some result or harvest from it. Action=Reaction.

God emphasizes in the aforementioned passage to pursue the things of the Holy Spirit as He guides us, and not things within our own human sinful nature. Because there is no way around it, we will reap what we sow. 

So, simply? Pursue good things not bad things, because a harvest is coming no matter what.

Do we always do this? Nope. That's why our lives have all the ups and downs, because we're receiving a harvest from our decisions, which teeter back and forth from what we want to what the Holy Spirit wants. 

So that's why the writer of Hebrews wrote this:

Hebrews 12:1-2a NIV

[1] Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, [2a] fixing our eyes on Jesus...

And why Jesus said, "if a man would come after me, let him deny himself daily, take up his cross and follow me." Luke 9:23. I can almost guarantee "the cross" He was talking about was our human sinful nature.

So we get rid of anything that hinders us from being led by the Holy Spirit, and sin we can get mixed up in. We "deny self," our human sinful nature, and allow ourselves to be led by the Holy Spirit instead.

Why? Because God knows a harvest is coming from whatever we choose in life, and He loves us and wants only what is best for us in this life. 

Deuteronomy 30:19b NKJV [19b]...that  I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 

So, choose the life of being led by the Holy Spirit, who inside us, and not by our human sinful nature.

Why?

Because either way...a harvest is coming!

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Jeffrey Post