Read: Judges 1:1-7
And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. Judges 1:7 KJV
Many of us have heard the saying, “You reap what you sow.”
It is the way in which someone receives the appropriate return for a favor, service, or wrongdoing.
The older generations would say it when they were trying to make us aware of the right things to do.
We all should desire to do good, but we know there will be some whose desire is on the opposite end.
Forgetting the words that Job spoke to the people.
He told them, “Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same” (Job 4:8 KJV).
It still holds true to this day.
We even see in today’s reading where Adonibezek was captured and treated the same way he had treated others (Judges 1:7 KJV).
He acknowledged that he was being treated in the same manner in which he had treated others.
That he was tasting the bitter fruits of cruelty that he had shown his enemies.
None should desire to be on this receiving end.
This principle of reaping also applies to those of us who strive to sow seeds of goodness.
No matter what we are going through, when we are kind and thoughtful to others, others will be kind and thoughtful to us.
Let us sow today, what we want to reap tomorrow.
Prayerfully, you will be the one who wants it to be all good.
A WORD OF PRAYER
Savior, we know that if we sow a seed of wickedness, sin’s harvest will we reap. That is why we are to scatter the seeds of righteousness everywhere we go. Knowing that there will be a harvest of blessings. It will always be when we treat each other the way we want to be treated. Thank You reminding us that what we sow today is what we will reap tomorrow.
In Jesus’ Name We Pray, Amen