Lessons on Jehoram (3)—We Always Reap What We Sow - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

Because you have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah to play the harlot and also have killed your brothers behold, the Lord will strike your people with a serious affliction—your children, your wives, and all your possessions; and you will become very sick with a disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
2 Chronicles 21:12-15

Lessons on Jehoram (3)—We Always Reap What We Sow
Jehoram had seen the life of his father, and certainly knew well about his grandfather Asa. He also came under the disciplining hand of the Lord, to no avail. We read that Ahab's daughter was his wife, and this is certainly to bring to our attention that she definitely was not a help for him to do good, but quite to the contrary (cf. ). What a sobering lesson about marrying in the Lord and not putting ourselves under an unequal yoke (2 Cor. 6:14).

Because Jehoram did not turn from his wicked ways, because he killed all his brothers, because he was leading the people into idolatry, the judgment of God was pronounced on him. Had he repented right after these serious words, he would have found mercy. But now the time came to reap what he had sown. "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal. 6:7). This is what we call the government of God. One day or another, we always reap what we sow.

This is also a serious reminder for those who live in sin. In this life we already reap the consequences of many of our actions, but there is a day when all things will come under the perfect and righteous judgment of God. For the believer there is "the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad" (2 Cor. 5:10). But for those who are still in their sins, there will be the great white throne for the judgment of sin and eternal condemnation. Today is still the day to go to Christ and find forgiveness of sins.

Alexandre Leclerc