50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves.
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God’s Fixed Laws
A very important portion of Scripture that every believer and unbeliever should know is Galatians 6:7-8: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 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.” Now, the reason moon missions were even possible is because the entire universe operates on fixed laws. Nothing is random. The moon doesn’t speed up or slow down, and gravity doesn’t alter its force. All that is predictable. So, the reason they could do that is because everything in creation operates on fixed laws that are inviolable, unalterable, and absolute. And that’s why we can speak of creation as under the reign of law. And just as there are physical laws, there are also moral laws. There are laws in the spiritual realm that are equally fixed and absolute. To think otherwise is to contradict the nature of the Creator and His creation. And the Bible certainly affirms this self-evident reality. All human experience confirms with great force that the universe is run on absolute, fixed laws, and that God has structured into His universe laws that operate inexorably. His laws are not only physical and natural; they are also moral and spiritual. And in this text is a moral law. Here is one of God’s absolute, fixed principles: “Whatever a man sows, this will he also reap.” Now that is true agriculturally. You plant any seed, and you get the life that is contained in that seed, and that never, ever changes. So that’s true physically: whatever you sow, you reap. But Paul is making the point here that it’s also true spiritually. Paul begins with, “Don’t be deceived.” Don’t think you can ignore God; this law will never ever change—a principle that no one can deny, not even a skeptic. Some passages in Scripture need no other proof than experience, and this is one of them. So, in this chapter, Paul is telling us how to live the Christian life. And here is one of the essential principles of living the Christian life. You have two options: you can walk in the Spirit and realize the fruit of the Spirit, or you can walk in the flesh and realize the fruit of the flesh. According to Galatians 5, if you plant the deeds of the spirit, you will harvest “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” However, if you plant deeds of the flesh, you will harvest “immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these.” He wants to warn us that whatever you plant is exactly what you will harvest. So do not be deceived. That’s a crucial warning because I would say that most people, including most Christians, are somewhat deceived, to one degree or another, about the consequences of their sinful behaviors. I think we tend to believe that because we’re under grace and not law, because we’ve been forgiven and that’s forever, because we cannot lose our salvation, because God is so gracious He keeps on forgiving our sins, because we haven’t contributed to our salvation by our works, and because we can’t sustain our salvation by our works or lack thereof, there’s a certain impunity with which we can sin. And that's why Paul says, “Don’t deceive yourself; whatever you sow, you will reap.” Repent and believe! GTY.org (48-41) - The Inescapable Law of Sowing and Reaping – 48-41
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January 17, 2026
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