REAPING WHAT YOU SOW

 

Abram and his nephew Lot were very successful in the stewardship of the means that God had given them. The were so productive that space for the herds was a major concern. Lot and Abram elected to go opposite ways, one to the Left, the other to the right.

Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.   So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. {Gen 13:10-11}

As the Lord walked with Abram, the Lord pondered:  If He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;  and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men   (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),  then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,  and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties. {2Pe 2:6-10}

The First casualty as Lot and his family were led by the hand out of Sodom and Gomorrah was Lot's wife. She did not obey because she did not believe. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.   "Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord...And I will welcome you. {Gal 6:7-8 / 2Co 6:14,17}

Therefore do not be partakers with them;  for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light  (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),  trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.  Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them. {Eph 5:7,8-9-11}

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LORD WILLING

 

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."  Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.  Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."  But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. {Jas 4:13-16}

"Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.  "They slip by like reed boats, Like an eagle that swoops on its prey. -- You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.  In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew; Toward evening it fades and withers away. {Job 9:25-26--Psa 90:5-6}

"Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.  "Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain. --The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.--"Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.  "Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. "But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end.

{Job 14:1-2--1Jn 2:17--Psa 102:25-27}

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BE DIFFERENT---BE HUMBLE--SHINE ON!

 

The night-time sky offers a grand panorama of heavenly bodies. Stars of every size and purpose. The Apostle Paul writes in Corinthians 15; " There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory."-1Co 15:41

In the quiet times and especially on the Sabbath Jesus would share great wisdom with His Twelve Apostles. One lesson was repeated multiple times as He counseled the one goal for all and that being to serve the Father, all of them equal in standing before the mighty throne. Jesus would often question them to see if what He was teaching was being applied in their actions. One evening He asked them what they had been discussing as they walked earlier in the day.   But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.  Sitting down, He called the twelve and *said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."-Mar 9:34-35

Those who were loyal in following Jesus were as different from each other as the stars are from the other luminaries in heaven.  "You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.  Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,  casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you."- 1Pe 5:5-7

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,  who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,  but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.  Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.-Php 2:5-9

"Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever."-Dan 12:3

Being different is a good thing. It causes us to find others who can buttress our weak areas while we may be able to strengthen their soft spots. What makes this wondrous and beautiful is when the goal is common to all and that end becomes the victory for everyone, large and small. We are all different but we shine with the same light. His light. Shine on!

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