Galatians 6:6-8 (ESV Strong's)
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Sow-Reap
In this letter to the churches in the region of Galatia, Paul is writing to confront false teachers and to encourage the believers to not fall back to Judaism. They were being taught, but false teachers, to “add” the preachiness of Judaism (circumcision; ceremonial washings, etc.) to their Christianity. Paul plainly tells them that this teaching is wrong:
Galatians 5:6 (ESV Strong's)
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Yet, they continued to insist that doing the “works of the law” did “add” to their faith. This is the context for the above verses. It is a universal law when we consider the science of sowing and reaping. The laws of the universe are set in stone. It is why scientist can predict outcomes or accomplish great things in the name of science: God has established a scientific order to the universe. Although God’s miracles transcend that science (God is not bound by the same scientific equations), God did design them. He puts them in place to show order in the world. Note what Job tells us about this science:
Job 26:7-10 (ESV Strong's)
7 He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not split open under them.
9 He covers the face of the full moon
and spreads over it his cloud.
10 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
God designed the earth with these laws. That is why Paul can call upon the churches of Galatia to the law of sowing and reaping. God is NOT mocked ... His laws are true and just and consistent. You can’t mock God by thinking you can sow sin and not reap justice. That does not happen. It is a law of God as true as gravity. It is a law of God as true centrifugal force. We sow - we reap. Paul was telling the false teachers that as they continue to mock God with their teaching they will reap corruptions to themselves and in the church. Paul was telling the church if they reap the sin of disobedience and continue to practice Judaism as an avenue to Christ, they will reap sorrow. This is a life law that has no alternative. Whatever you sow, you reap!
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