Reflection: Sunday 3rd July and for the week ahead:Scripture:‘You reap whatever you sow.’ (Galatians 6.7)Reflection:References to sowing and reaping appear frequently throughout both the Old and New Testaments, and their meaning is perfectly clear, not only to farmers and gardeners, but to everybody. The concept is even used, so I’m told, in business and banking: no profit without investment!Here St Paul is talking about the sowing of spiritual ‘seeds’.If what we contribute to our community is selfishness, unkindness, negativity and constant criticism of others, these things take hold and spread like weeds.If, on the other hand, we ‘sow to the Spirit’(v.8) we harvest the fruit of the Spirit, identified by Paul as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. We pray for this life enhancing fruit, that it will take deep root both in each of us and in our community. Revd Rosemary Kobus van Wengen
