God Won't Be Mocked!
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for
whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."
Galatians 6:7
God’s harvest principle—we reap what we sow—is
illustrated more than once in Scripture. Nowhere as
sadly as in the story of Judah, one of Jacob’s twelve
sons who fell away from God and reaped a terrible
harvest.
Judah, the fourth eldest son of Jacob, exhibited leadership qualities
when he intervened in his brothers’ plans to put Joseph to death. He
convinced them to spare Joseph’s life and sell him into Egypt as the
slave instead. He must have been a natural leader—until he yielded
to fleshly temptation and married a Canaanite woman who bore him
three sons. Two of his sons were wicked and died, and Judah had a
sexual relation with the widow of one of the sons, thinking she was
a prostitute. This story is no doubt included in the Genesis record as
an illustration of the need to isolate the Hebrews in Egypt, in order to
keep them from intermarrying with pagans in Canaan. (Egyptians
looked down on Hebrews and would not intermarry with them.)
Judah’s actions sent ramifications, like ripples across
a pond, throughout the story of God’s chosen people.
God is not mocked: What we sow, we will also reap.
"Sow holiness, and reap happiness."
George Swinnock
