NOT only does a man reap in quality the same as he sows, but in quantity a great deal more. One grain of wheat will yield thirty, or sixty, or a hundredfold; so one seed of a thistle.
So it is morally. One evil thought indulged, what a source of prolific evil it may become! One act of dishonesty, or of impurity, or of cruelty, etc., may yield results worldwide and unending. This thought will apply to that which is good as well as evil.
“I have no one to blame but myself,” said a young man suffering the penalty of the law in one of our prisons: “I sowed the seeds with my own hand which have yielded me the sad harvest which I am now reaping.”
“I remember,” said another man in a class meeting, “how as a child I loved to pray, to read the Scriptures, and to hear mother talk about Jesus; and the good seed which I then sowed is, blessed be God, yielding me now a harvest of joy and sweet remembrances, besides the good hope of a better harvest to come.”