Today’s devotion is from 2 Corinthians 9:6 (AMP)
Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to others] will also reap generously [and be blessed].
The New Covenant is full of teachings that encourage believers to be generous sowers of the Word, of our finances, of prayers and of kindness toward others. As we sow good, a good harvest will come back to us.
In the old Covenant not only the good a person sowed produced a harvest, but also the bad that they sowed. Their harvest was determent by what they did. In the New covenant we are blessed with a good harvest for the good seeds we sow as well as the good seeds that Jesus sowed. We do not however reap a bad harvest because of past mistakes. Our covenant of grace in Christ causes ‘all things’, even past mistakes to yield a good harvest. We get to enjoy a good harvest because of what Jesus sowed and we get to bypass bad harvests because Jesus endured our bad harvests for our bad sowing on the cross of Calvary.
In the New Covenant a believer does not reap a bad harvest from the bad seeds that they have sown in the past. Jesus already did that for us. Many Christians today believe and teach that you will always reap a bad harvest from bad seeds sown in the past. They believe this primarily because of Galatians 6:6-8. Let’s look at this scripture in context and see if that is what God is saying…
Galatians 6:6-7 (AMP)
Let him who receives instruction in the Word [of God] share all good things with his teacher [contributing to his support]. Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.
It seems fairly straightforward at first glance… ‘God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap’. Because of this scripture many believers are living in fear because they are expecting bad things to come to them because of their past. Let me begin by assuring you that your past [including 5 minutes ago] is under the blood of Jesus, and because of the New Covenant of GRACE, the devil has no power to harm you, regardless of what you have sown in the past.
When we read Galatians 6:6-7 in context, it is not talking about sowing and reaping in general, it is SPECIFICALLY talking about sowing financial seeds into the lives of those who teach you the Word of God.
‘Whatever a man sows financially, that and that only is what he will reap’… ‘For he who sows to his flesh [financially] will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit [financially] will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. In other words, if we sow our finances towards material things, those things will eventually waste away, but if we sow our finances toward the kingdom of God we will reap everlasting fruit. This is not referring to some doom’s day harvest for past mistakes, it is talking about different kinds of harvests that come from different kinds of sowing our finances. One harvest is temporary, the other eternal - Selah
