Reaping and Sowing
(Gen 27:19 KJV) And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Jacob tells a series of lies here putting Israel in the place of Abimelech! My friends, we will reap what we’ve sown, it’s an indisputable law of life. Isaac had jeopardized the lives of the Philistines with his lie, and now Jacob ruins the life of his brother. Many times, reaping what we’ve sown hurts more by the time it gets back to us. It seems to have picked up momentum on its rounds! We may sin what we deem to be a “slight” sin, and have it return threefold unto us! Sin has built in repercussions, and often though we escape the full impact of it, the repercussion is nearly as harmful, or more so!
Not only did Isaac’s sin return to him after lying to Abimelech, but it affected his “chosen” son, his favorite! Sin always affects others, and always seems to get the one (or several) that we love. Bob Jones Sr. once said “If you play with sin, you can’t win”, and that, my friends, is true. All this is understood, but even worse than all these things, sin hurts our relationship with the Lord, and that hurts Him! It is as if we stood at the cross of Calvary and threw stones at our Lord while He hung there dying for our sin, and watching Him flinch every time a stone hits Him. Will you “cast the first stone” at our Savior?
As Esau said, Jacob was appropriately named, his name means “schemer” or “trickster”(27:36). Let us take a lesson from Jacob, that when we lie in wait to deceive, others are hurt, in some way, by our deception. If we don’t see it in our loved ones, we know it hurts our Lord, and our testimony before Him; sin never pays. Judgment is often slow in coming, but it will come, because sin demands it, and a lie never lays dormant, but always seems to lead to more lying. Its fruit is painful to someone, and somehow will always rebound unto us.
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