"WE WILL REAP!"

Galatians 6:6-9                                   (ESV)
"6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.
7 Do not be deceived: GOD is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
8 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.
9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season "WE WILL REAP", if we do not give up."



It may not be an automatic response, but certainly a predominant one, that when someone experiences difficulties in their life for us to "wonder what they did wrong"?  After all, Galatians 6:7 DOES say "......for whatever one sows, that will he also reap"!  But sometimes GOD uses the difficulties in our lives to move us toward the direction in our lives to give HIM glory.  And the task of acknowledging those who assist us on our journey is something that we should not leave for others to take care of.

In verse 6 above, scripture points out we should share our "good things" with those who teaches us about the word.  The 1599 Geneva Bible translates verse 6 like this, "Let him that is taught the word, make him that taught him, partaker of all his goods."  Now this verse doesn't say those who have the title or position to teach should benefit from having a title, rather it says "make him that taught him, partaker of all his goods."  Those who actually "teach" should be the ones who we share GOD's blessings with.  And GOD knows who they are and if we are honoring them.

Job was "blameless and upright, one who feared GOD and turned away from evil" (Job 1:1).  Yet GOD allowed Satan to cause Job serious trials, and Job had done nothing wrong.  Just because a person is experiencing difficulties in "this world" doesn't indicate that that person has sewn bad seeds, it could be they are being used to glorify and honor ALMIGHTY GOD!  Do you think that Paul and Silas (Acts 16) had committed crimes to be placed in prison?  Maybe Paul is writing in Galatians 6:6-9 that if we sew corruptible seeds, we can expect corruption to grow.  If we sew seeds of the SPIRIT, we should expect fruits of the SPIRIT to be harvested?

My expectations of reaping things of the SPIRIT is most often entangled with me waiting on the SPIRIT!  Far too many times I have an expectation of what GOD will do, and how HE will do it.  But the biggest flaw I experience is waiting on HIM to determine when "WE WILL REAP"!  Perhaps that is why Psalms 27:14 says "WAIT FOR THE LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage;", and then it again finishes with "WAIT FOR THE LORD!"  We can plant all the seeds we want, but only GOD can determine what "WE WILL REAP" and when we will reap it!!!