“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.” (Galatians 6:7-8 NASB1995)

What is the message here for us? It is the same message that Jesus taught and that his New Testament apostles taught as the gospel of our salvation. For we don’t “get saved,” and now heaven is secured for us for eternity, but regardless of how we live. How we live our lives on this earth matters for eternity, and this has nothing to do with “works salvation.” This is the command of God that we, as followers of Christ, must make obedience to our Lord, and dying to sin, how we live, in practice, in the power of God.

So, even though we may make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, if sin is still our practice, and not obedience to God and to his commands, what we reap is not eternal life with God, but corruption (death). But if obedience to our Lord and putting sin to death daily, by the Spirit, is what we practice, then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And all this is of God and not of human flesh. Only by the grace of God, in the power of God, can any of us have salvation and eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

Sowing and Reaping
An Original Work / January 21, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love