FAITH CAPSULE: As close as the banana and plantain may look alike, one cannot sow bananas and reap plantains.

Genesis 27

God is perfectly managing each and all of His creation. No man can sow oranges and reap apple. As close as the banana and plantain may look alike, one cannot sow bananas and reap plantains. In life, what ever you sow is what you will reap. It is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of reception. Where you are sowing seeds of lies, you will reap the fruit of being deceived. Esau, the first son of Isaac, knew well enough not to marry outside of his father’s prescribed area but nevertheless, he still went and married without Isaac’s blessing. It is written, “When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.”(Genesis 26:34-35)Esau’s move gave his parents grief of mind, which can be likened to heartache, stress, disruption, anger and maybe sleepless nights. At a very old age when it was time for Isaac to bless his children, Esau was in line to take the best part of the blessings. Despite the grief that Esau had caused his parents by marrying outside of his father’s prescribed area, he was still considered to be the one receiving the best of the blessings. Isaac called on Esau and spoke to him, “Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”(Genesis 27:3-4)There is no procedure neither is there any mishap that can obliterate or erase for one not to reap from what was sown and this was also the case for Esau. His mother intercepted Isaac’s assignment for Esau and she made Jacob to overtake the blessings of Esau. Jacob went and carried out Isaac’s assignment and entered into an assigned blessing of his brother. At the time Esau came back from his hunting, Jacob had already carried out Isaac’s request and went away without any way of Esau regaining the blessing. Esau sowed the seed of grief for his parents and there was no way out for him but to reap the fruit of grief. Jacob, however, did not get away from sowing the seed of deception. Jacob also reaped the fruit of being aggravatingly deceived in the hand of Laban, his father in-law. Watch the kind of seeds you are sowing because when reaping time starts, prayer will not help you to escape the pain of what you sow.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace that makes man to sow good and not bad.