They Got What Was Coming To Them
Most of us understand the law of reaping and sowing. Often times when it’s referenced it is done so in a negative light as if to say, “they got what was coming to them”. We mustn’t forget that reaping and sowing is just as much positive as it is negative. Jesus in Luke 6:37-38 stresses the positive side, “Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
I read a cute love story yesterday that made me think that they “got what was coming to them” can be both heartwarming and beautiful. The little love story went like this, “A very poor man lived with his wife. One day, his wife who had very long hair asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well groomed. The man felt very sorry and said no. He explained that he did not even have enough money to fix the strap of his watch he had just broken. She did not insist on her request. The man went to work and passed by a watch shop, sold his damaged watch at a low price and went to buy a comb for his wife. He came home that evening with the comb in his hand ready to give to his wife. He was surprised when he saw his wife with very short hair cut. She had sold her hair and was holding a new watchband. Tears flowed simultaneously from their eyes, not for the futility of their actions, but for the reciprocity of their love.”
It’s never an act of futility when we do as the apostle Paul exhorted the church in 1 Corinthians 16:14 to do, “Let all that you do be done with love.” Don’t forget, “We love others best when we love God most.” Because of their mutually sacrificial gestures of love the old man and his wife got exactly what was coming to them. They got each other.
“from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love”
Ephesians 4:16
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