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For 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." Gal. 6:7, 8. In the spirit world are Rupert, Signe, Henrik, Marie, Rachel and all our friends in their time and place. These are employed in joyous activity, as they see their field of usefulness continually widen.
Let it never be forgotten that if Nineveh is God's choice for you, you can make no other port in safety. The sea will be against you, the wind against you. It is hard indeed to struggle against God. Jacob was a warning. Deceiving his own father, his sons in turn deceived him. May we never forget the Scripture which declares, "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Esau was a warning.
Therein David is but a very conspicuous example of a law which runs through all our work for God. None of us are privileged to perform completed tasks. 'One soweth and another reapeth. We have to be content to do partial work, and to leave its completion to our successors.
Jesus Christ 'came eating and drinking, and therefore the highest and the best thing is that Christian people should innocently, and with due control, and always keeping themselves in touch with God, enjoy all outward blessings, only subject to this law, 'whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever we do, to do all to the glory of God, and remembering this warning, 'He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
"The destined hand doth strike the fated blow: Surely the arrow's fitted to the bow!" And he says: "The feathered seed for the wind delayeth, The wind above the garden swayeth, The garden of its burden knoweth, The burden falleth, sinketh, soweth." So the Vizier chuckled and nodded, saying, 'Right, right! aptly spoken, O youth of favour!
He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap eternal life." It is evident from the foregoing that even the sinful life is a quest for God, although it does not know itself to be such, for in seeking life saint and sinner alike are seeking God, the all-embracing life.
For 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. If he sows seeds of unkindness and cruelty to man and beast, no one knows what the blackness of the harvest will be. His poor horse, quivering under a blow, is not the worst sufferer.
"'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. . . . Well, I'm reaping that's all." Like the keen thrust of a knife came Olga's answer. "And must he, too, reap your sowing? For that's what it amounts to that Max must suffer for your sin. Oh! He's paid enough for others! . . . Diana" imploringly "Max is leaving England to-night. Go back to him now don't wait until it's too late," "No."
We see the truth of "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap," and we see, too, that this harvest field where we reap is the human life, and the seeds are thoughts, and we then and there fill our field of consciousness with thought-seeds of Health, Strength, Peace, Love, Joy and all the ten thousand beautiful constructive things, and we soon are living in a perfected thought world, surrounded by the dream pictures of our soul consciousness.
These are the plain principles involved in the exhortation of my text. 'He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption. 'I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection. It is a good servant; it is a bad master. I need only say a word about that. Paul is not meaning to depreciate the sacrificial ritual, from which he drew his emblem.
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