September 17
There’s an old saying about a young person sowing his or her ‘wild oats.’ It seems that the older generation anticipates that those who follow behind them won’t come to themselves—come to their senses!—until they’ve made their share of foolish mistakes. Perhaps because more seasoned individuals remember so many of their own.
There is often a penalty to be paid for the wild oats that were sown. Because the analogy involves planting, reaping must also be anticipated. The consequences of sowing wild oats is often that when the individual realizes there is a better way to live his life, when he begins sowing worthily into the soil of his life, the good crop must compete with the less desirable harvest.
Many have sown unproductively into their spiritual lives as well as into their natural existence. Often, the two go hand-in-hand. When people are making unwise spiritual choices, they are unlikely to be making viable professional or relational choices either. Yet there is a distinct difference regarding the spiritual seeds that have been sown from those scattered in the carnal area of life.
The Apostle Paul tells us in II Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone belongs to Christ, he becomes a new creature; old things are done away. All things become new.” The man who gives himself to Jesus is delivered immediately from the spiritual ramifications of his previous wrong choices. His life is washed clean of sin and foibles; he is set free to begin again by sowing the joy of salvation into his life.
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