FROM TODAY’S READING (10/29/2019)...
A farmer’s crop of melons was disappearing fast from his field. Thieves were continually stealing the melons under the cover of night’s darkness. The farmer finally became desperate and in an attempt to save his crop from the vandals he decided to put up a sign. The sign had on it a skull and crossbones, and read: “ONE OF THESE MELONS IS POISONED” — only the farmer knew that it was not true.
Sure enough, for two nights not a melon was missing. But, after the third night, the farmer noticed that his sign had been altered. Someone had scratched out a couple words so that the sign now read: “TWO OF THESE MELONS ARE POISONED.”
Thinking to save his whole crop through deception, he lost it all. As Sir Walter Scott observed: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
Galatians 6:7-9 (NIV) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
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