God can not be deceived.

Here we have one of those outstanding passages of Scripture, which we think needs to be considered today. Paul is presenting here a great principle, an immutable law that operates in all spheres of life. In the agriculture sector, a person sows wheat, and that's what he harvests, wheat. He can plant rice and then he will harvest rice. You can never get elm pears, for example. The principle that we have then is that what you sow, that is what you are going to harvest. In the sphere of morality, you will also reap what you sow. In the Gospel of Matthew 13, the Lord Jesus Christ told of a sower who went out into the field to sow. And he also stressed that a reaper came out to harvest.

The principle established in this verse is immutable, invariable, unalterable and can not be revoked. It can not be modified in any of its parts and is applicable to each sphere, to each sector and area of ​​life. Therefore, what is harvested will belong to the same type of seed that is sown. In this system there are no errors or mutations that alter the relationship of what is sown and what is harvested. In ancient tombs in Egypt were found wheat seeds that had been placed in that place five thousand years ago. And do you know what happened? When you sow those seeds you can still harvest wheat. The seed did not lose its own identity of belonging to wheat in the five thousand years that passed. And so it is with every seed, no matter its complex characteristics, its structure or its appearance.

There are many great characters in the Bible who serve as an illustration for this principle. One of them was Jacob, whose story is told in Genesis 27 to 29. There we are told how Jacob deceived his father. Being the younger brother of the family, he disguised himself in such a way that he looked like his older brother, Esau, who was a hairy man raised in the open air. And he did it in order to receive the blessing that belonged to the eldest son. He covered his hands and arms with kid skins, and put on the clothes of Esau. And in that way he managed to cheat his father. But when he discovered the deceit and Esau's reaction to revenge, he had to flee his home and went to live with his uncle Laban. At first it seemed that he had got away with it, by deceiving his father with total impunity. But God said, dear listener, that what man sows, that will also reap. It will not reap something similar, similar, but it will reap something identical. What happened then? Well, Jacob fell in love with Raquel, Laban's youngest daughter, and after talking with Laban and coming to an agreement with him, he worked seven years for her. After that period, they had the wedding feast, and when he lifted the veil from the face of the bride, what did he find? That the bride was not Raquel, the younger daughter of Laban, but that it was Leah, the eldest daughter, who was not as beautiful as Rachel. We think that this young Jacob, on his honeymoon learned a lesson, and that lesson was that he had cheated on his father, having pretended to be the oldest when in fact he was the youngest. And now his uncle gave him his eldest daughter, when he thought he was marrying the youngest. It was evident that he was reaping what he had sown. He had cheated on his father, and in the end he was tricked by his uncle. There were the consequences in sight.

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Do you remember Ahab and Jezebel? We study his story in First Kings 21. They planned a criminal plot to keep Naboth's vineyard. It was a beautiful vineyard coveted by King Ahab. But Naboth did not want to sell him that property. But as Ahab and Jezebel were nothing less than the king and queen, they usually took what they wanted, carried out their plot, and Jezebel had Naboth killed and took possession of the vineyard. And then, they thought they had got away with it. But the prophet Elijah told King Ahab: "In the same place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick your blood, your blood." (1 Kings 21:19, in case you want to read it). Well, humanly speaking, you could not believe that could happen.

Ahab would have thought: "Well, in that case, I'll stay away from that place." But by continuing to read the history and the wanderings of that king one can learn that he was fatally wounded in a battle and told his coachman to take him out of the place of battle. As he did so, the blood from his wounds fell down the side of the car. So after the battle his body was transferred to Samaria and there, in the pond of the city they washed the car and the dogs licked the blood of the king. There, precisely, where Naboth had been murdered, the prophecy communicated by the prophet Elijah was fulfilled to the letter. (If you want to check it, you can read the outcome of the
episode in First Kings 22). Another example of inexorable character of this principle of sowing and harvesting was Paul. The apostle was present at the stoning of Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church; maybe he could even have been one of the promoters of that execution. Well, after his conversion on the road to Damascus, when he went to visit the cities of Lystra and Derbe in the land of Galatia, he was stoned. Someone might have thought that because he had converted to Christ, when his sins were presented, Paul was not going to reap what he had sown. But God has established that what man sows, that will also reap. And we have already seen that this principle remains in force. That has been true in the lives of many people. Lord Byron said: "My life is in a pale leaf, the fruits and flowers of love have already passed, but the worm, the sore and the pain are mine alone." A well-known preacher, Mr. Mel Trotter, who before his conversion was dominated by drinking, he was once visiting the city of Nashville, in the United States, and one night several people met and went with him to a restaurant. Some asked for ice cream, other milkshakes or cakes, but the preacher just asked for mineral water. Everyone started making jokes and asking him why he did not ask for something more special. And his response was: "When the Lord gave me a new heart in my conversion, He did not give me a new stomach, and I am paying for those years in which I gave myself to drink." It is useless to escape from that universal law, which is one of the consequences of sin: Everything that man sows, that will also reap. It is that no one can deceive God or make fun of Him, or get away with it. How much we wish that young people were aware of the truth and reality of this principle. Currently many are taking drugs, and indulging in the pleasure of an easy sex and a free love of all kinds of commitments and responsibilities. And of course, some of them have already begun to reap the consequences of that insatiable search for pleasure. Physical deterioration and various diseases, such as AIDS, for example, have reached epidemic proportions in some regions of the world. Why? Because God has said that all those who pretend to overlook their principles, thinking that the pleasure of sin compensates and does not leave serious results in life, will not get away with it and will have to suffer serious consequences, in the form of a great physical and mental deterioration of irreversible effects, both at the personal and social levels. Even the enormous advances in medicine can not remedy these serious consequences.

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When you rebel against the laws of the Creator and sow all that human sin and evil offer deceitfully as incomparable pleasures, you will reap in your own painful experience what sin really is and you will see that it inevitably leads to mental and physical destruction. Some of these people have converted to Christ by freeing themselves from drugs before they produced an irreversible physical and mental wear and tear. The change operated in them by the power of God has allowed them to restore their life to a certain normality. However, their experience will allow them to tell others that their previous stage was not worth it. Let's read verse 8 of this chapter 6 of the Epistle to the Galatians.

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All the biblical quotations are from Reina Valera .1960

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