The Harvest: A Life of Love

I've always found this part of the bible to be the most interesting, compelling and applicable and as we wrap up the book of Galatians, Paul encourages the Galatians to do good to others. We as Christians must learn to do the same as we are called to love everyone around us.

This is how we live the life of love in the Spirit.

Rebuke and Confront in Love (v.1)
Believer or not, when we see someone who has falling astray, or lead in the wrong direction, it is our role to help lead them back onto the path and help them realize what they are doing. I'm sure you've had experiences where you've seen someone go in the wrong direction and you want to help them. But approaching them is very difficult. You have to go in love, not with an aggressive or condemning mindset. Speak to one another in love.

Carry One Another's Burdens (v.2)
Life, and even Life with Christ was never meant to be simple and easy. We are always judged and persecuted, insulted and beat down, and everyone comes with their own package of burdens they are carrying. As friends, and brothers and sisters in Christ, we are given a community, a support system where we can love and keep each other accountable. If you are willing to open up and be vulnerable with someone, im sure if they love you, they will carry your burden with you. Remember to always follow up on each other, carrying burdens for someone else is never a one-time thing, but a constant give and take relationship.

Share Good Things With One Another (v.6)
When we learn new things, when we are blessed, let us share and celebrate with one another. Whether it be material possessions or something that has happened in your life. Tell one another, as encouragement or just as something to rejoice about. Not out of pride, but again our of love. God has blessed us with so much, let us not keep it to ourselves, but let it overflow into the lives of others.

⁷ Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. ⁸ 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. ⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. - Galatians 6:7-9

Paul explains clearly here that we reap what we sow. If we sow our desires of the flesh, we reap destruction, and if we sow the desires of the spirit, we reap eternal life. What would you like to reap? And as it says in the beginning of verse 7, God cannot be mocked or deceived. Paul goes on in the next portion talking about circumcision, and the truth is that what counts is a new creation, not circumcision (v.15). Or in our sense, what counts is our heart, not our appearance. All these good things we do should be out of love, from our heart, not because we're trying to earn something, prove something, or to make us look good. It starts and comes from the heart. As it says in 1 Corinthians 13, we can do all things, but "without love, I am nothing".

¹⁴ May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. - Galatians 6:14

"The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." May are desires be dead to the world, and that we only long to have desires to serve our master, Lord Jesus Christ.

verse of the day: Galatians 6:15

¹⁵ Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.