Text: “…whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap” – Galatians 6:7
There lived a highly educated and widely celebrated school teacher who God used to raise the lives and destinies of thousands of young men and women in the old Western region.
He was so cerebral that whenever there was any issue of moral and/or educational decadence, he was the ‘utility player’ that the government of that time deployed to sort things out and he attended to that duty, effortlessly and beyond expectation – the man was very good and outstanding! On his home front however, things weren’t very pleasant.
His wife had psychiatric issues which led to her sudden death, two of his children were known armed robbers till they were killed, the rest of the children died strangely and things were generally on the southward slope domestically.
As a young Christian I became very curious in the place of prayers about why such bad things happen to good people. There, it was revealed to me that the wife of that highly celebrated man betrayed the trust and confidence of her best friend.
She ‘snatched’ the man from her best friend when she travelled out of the country for further studies and married him before the friend got back – what a life!
That is an example of the terrible attitude of a number of people in our world today. They traverse the land with the fallacious opinion that they are not answerable to anyone – they fire arrows to the sky and hide their heads under a mortar thinking that their deeds are not visible to human eyes.
I have news for such people, nothing is hid from the eyes of the Almighty God! ( 2 Chronicles 16:9; Genesis 17:1). He knows and sees all the deeds of man and He is a rewarder and will surely reward every deed.
In Jeremiah 17:10 (NLT version) God confirmed this: “I the Lord search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve”. (Revelations 22:11-12; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Revelations 2:23b; Hebrews 11:6b).
It is regrettable that this type of irresponsible behavior pervades the land from ‘ghost workers’ at government controlled organizations to non-existent contracts, ten-percents on contracts awards, ‘ghost parliamentarians’ who avoid public sittings and yet receive humongous pay packets, to fraudulent judicial officers who right the societal wrongs by apportioning judgments based on ‘cash and carry’, to shameless political power holders that were voted for public interests but running after personal benefits and spending our common patrimony for useless expenditure, even when COVID 19 is destroying homes and families.
It also goes to our spiritual power wielders that have mortgaged their consciences on the altar of pecuniary benefits.
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It is becoming a norm in our clime for people to get paid for work undone, for the ‘side pays’ of some highly placed officers in public and private places to be more important to them than their gazetted salaries hence their lives of temporal opulence.
Wickedness is now the order of the day in our homes and public spaces. Many privileged individuals live wickedly and selfishly but ignorantly about the day of death when all shall end (Ecclesiastes 11:8).
It is worrisome how people subject family members and house-helps at their commands to terrible maltreatment and staff working under them are not spared of their “caustic” tongues and wickedness.
Paul, in our text expressed the mind of God concerning those set of people. It is possible to deceive man but God can neither be mocked nor deceived. He said that no one should opine that his works are not known because every overt and covert work shall be rewarded in due course.
Jesus Christ gave due credence to Paul’s letter when He told the church in Laodecia as recorded in Revelation 3:15-17 that ” I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of my mouth.
Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and don’t know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” – what a frightening verdict of rejection by God for such people at the twilight of their ages!
During this time of Lent brethren, God is calling on you to carry out a personal, detailed and honest analysis of your life, how wicked and dishonest you have been to yourself, to hapless and helpless people within the precincts of your home, place of work, ministry and the state.
It is for this purpose that Jesus Christ came. He came to save the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15:24). He is calling you today to consider your ways very fast and repent before it is too late and He comes down with His judgment (Acts 3:19; Revelations 2:5).
His fiery judgment in Jeremiah 17:11 is that “like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. At midlife they will lose their riches; In the end, they will become poor old fools.” May this never be your end in the name of Jesus.
From this moment, please confess your sins to God, surrender your life to Jesus Christ and be committed to a life of righteousness, integrity, kindness, empathy, love and holiness. Ask for pardon from the people you have wronged and restitute your ways.
Support families that their loved ones have tested positive to COVID 19. By so doing, God will forgive your past deeds, give you a new life, prosper your way, bless the fruits of your loins, elongate your years and when your end shall come, you will be blessed with eternal life as opposed to eternal damnation in the name of Jesus.
Prayer: Lord, I am sorry for my evil deeds. Give me a clean heart and give me grace to reign with you eternally in Jesus’ name
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