FAITH CAPSULE: It is true that what a man sows he will surely reap.
Genesis 27
In your new beginning allow the newness of God’s grace to reign in your life. In the past year, whatever it is that does not represent God; that which does not glorify God, disallow it from having a place in your life as you engage the journey of a new beginning. It is true that what a man sows he will surely reap. God is a perfect Manager and He perfects in managing each and every of His creation by virtue of allowing His creation to reap from what they sow. In life, it is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of reception. Any man who sows the seed of lie will reap the fruit of being deceived.
What you sow you will reap. Esau, the first son of Isaac gave his parents grief of mind when he sows the seed of disobedience. Esau married outside of his father’s preference. 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 act of disobedience activated a grief of mind to his parents. 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. Regardless of Esau’s act of disobedience his father still considered him 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. Esau could not reap right where he sow wrongly when his mother re-assigned His chance to reap the blessing from his father to Jacob his brother. Jacob took the position of Esau’s blessing. There was no documentation of a conscious and purposeful act by Rebekah to punish Esau for his disobedience act. The point is nothing passes outside of God seeing; man shall reap from whatever man sows.
Esau sowed the seed of grief to his parents and there was no way out for him but to reap the fruit of grief. Watch the kind of seeds you sow because when reaping time starts, prayer will not help to deny you from the pain of what you sow.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God that you will not make a wrong by sowing a seed of grief in your new beginning.