There are many mysteries in the Word of God. Truths that seem like they are hidden, but they are not hidden they are mysteries to us, because we do not have the level of understanding they are unlocking for us. The Word of God is like a multi-dimensional puzzle, we want to skip dimensions, not realizing each dimension unlocks understanding into the next dimension of truth. The Lord is walking with us and continually inviting us into more understanding but it takes great humility and trust to unlock more truth.

A truth the Lord has been unlocking for me is that of how what we take from others is actually taking the same thing from ourselves. What we sow into others is actually being sown into ourselves. The Lord is revealing in many passages the damage we are doing to ourselves as we take from others what is not ours to take.

Proverbs 1 this morning established this truth yet again, “These men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.” When we take financially from others because of the greed in us, it actually keeps us in poverty, even though we believe we are in prosperity.

The mystery the Lord is unlocking is the truth that words we speak about others are actually either destroying or building us, based on whether we are edifying or tearing down others. When we speak fear, we are actually sowing fear inside of us. When we speak lies, we are actually planting lies in us. When we steal from others, we are actually stealing from ourselves as well. When we fornicate, we are actually doing violence to the other person and to ourselves.

God is revealing in many ways, through the Word of God the truth that what we are sowing in others is being sown into ourselves as well. This truth, comes with the fear of the Lord, for it causes us to really consider what we sow in others, when we realize it is sowing ourselves as well. We may not have realized what we were doing, but it is harvest time and the seeds sown are now been seen in many people.