The
inexorable law of sowing and reaping extends to every minute
detail of life. It is inescapable that every proverbial
chicken will eventually come home to roost. Some are faster than
others, seemingly flying, while others take the long way back;
but mark it down, that bird will boomerang! Not one piece
of poultry will go unaccounted for at the end of the day.
"Be not deceived; GOD
is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that soweth to the SPIRIT shall of the
SPIRIT reap life everlasting."
Though this principle is most often
couched in negative terms, it need not be necessarily.
There are good birds as well as bad ones; but each of us are held
personally responsible for the condition of our poultry farm.
"But Adoni-bezek fled;
and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his
thumbs and his great toes. And Adoni-bezek 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."
The LORD sets the prices, and tends to the
market. The wise farmer learns from his previous losses,
and though limping awkwardly through the lot, he is determined
to spread the feed of HIS favor toward a more healthy flock for
the future.
"For they have sown the
wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: ..."
As with any livestock operation, the
critters we choose to raise eventually mature and reproduce.
If we are careful to guard against disease and pestilence, the
flock thrives healthy, and beneficial, to our profit.
Left to
themselves however, a blight of the bird will set in over time,
holding the potential to consume our entire operation.
"Even as I have seen,
they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same."