WHAT a lot of people so busy at work gathering potatoes! There was a time they planted; now they are gathering.
There is a needful lesson we may get from this. You may be sure those people never planted carrots and then got potatoes from them; they are reaping just what they planted. So the Scripture says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Gal. 6:77Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7).
I once read of a coal miner in England, who was a very wicked man, he used bad words and many other bad things he did. So while sitting in a saloon gambling, he called to the waiter to bring him something to drink, and he called it “hell flames” and he told him if he could not bring him that, to bring him “damnation.” You see he was making light of God’s punishment for sin. He little thought he was sowing, or planting seed that would bring judgment to him. Just a few hours after that, he went down into the pit to work, and a dreadful accident took place, and he was so badly injured that the physicians could not help him, and the man’s last words were, “I am already suffering hell upon earth.” Oh, dear children, remember if you do what is wrong, it must bear its bad results. That man despised the warnings God had given in His word, and he died as he lived.
“As a tree falls so shall it lie;
As a man lives so shall he die,
As a man dies so shall he be,
All through the days of eternity.”
That man had done many bad things before that, and God did not punish him, but had patience with him until that moment, and He would bear no longer.
God is offering salvation to every one now, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but He will soon stop offering salvation, and He will bring judgment on the unbelievers. The fruit of unbelief is judgment. Do you believe in Jesus?
ML 04/29/1906