Don't be misled - you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.

Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. 

Galatians 6:7-8 NLT

Remember Paul is writing against some false teaching that was hitting the church, so it seems likely that as he starts to wrap this letter up that he hits on some of the other teaching he may have been concerned about.

What would have been on the other side of this admonition from Paul?

I wonder what was being said about God that his readers needed reminding that His justice can't be mocked?

Perhaps their version of God's view of what is just and fair was being twisted & used by the powerful & wealthy to hoard more power & wealth?

To use God's name to justify to something that does not line up with the God who IS Love?

And then he gives us this picture of sowing and harvesting. It makes me wonder what it is that I have sown, that others have sown in my life when I had no choice, or I've allowed to be sown that will lead to a harvest that is not Life?

We don't always get to choose, but often we do, about what is sown in our lives. Paul invites us to choose well.

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