Challenge #80

Listening to a message by Charles Stanley, he spoke about reaping what you sow.
He illustrated that reaping what you sow is a law of the land: everything planted will grow. In the same way that planting the seeds of certain fruits and vegetables will yield exactly what is planted, planting seeds in our lives works the same way. In the same way that we can't expect to grow strawberries by planting beets, we can't expect to grow love and peace by sowing sin. His message wasn't about marriage, but hearing it, I could not help but apply it to marriage. You can listen to the full message here: In Touch

He refers to Galatians 6 which says "⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ⁸For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. ⁹And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

If you sow anger, resentment, or selfishness into your marriage, you will reap exactly that. But likewise, if you sow patience, love, and forgiveness into your marriage, you will reap exactly that! So the question is: what do you want to develop and grow in your marriage? As he said in his message: "if you don't like what you've been harvesting, change seed bags!"

Today's challenge is to apply these concepts to your marriage by sowing the seed for the fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5 "²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."