What Goes Around, Comes Around

Last week, Leo Dutton did not earn his pay. His job was just too easy.

According to the Associated Press, Dutton, a county sheriff, received a text message from a teen-age boy asking this question, "Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?"

When Dutton realized this was an actual request for drugs, he texted back with a proposed meeting time and place. Once there, he confronted the young texter who had brought along a friend by flashing them his badge. Accordingly, the faces of both young men turned white, and they, shall we say, became very unsteady on their feet.

Had the boys listened to some 2000-year-old words from the Apostle Paul, they might have been spared the indignity:

Gal 6:7--Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Reaping What We Sow

Here is a parable, possibly true, that I enjoyed. My source was Erik Peterson.

Several years after inventing radar, Sir Robert Watson Watt was arrested in Canada for speeding. He'd been caught in a radar trap.

Later, he wrote this poem:

PITY SIR ROBERT WATSON WATT
STRANGE TARGET OF HIS RADAR PLOT,
AND THIS, WITH OTHERS I COULD MENTION,
A VICTIM OF HIS OWN INVENTION.

Paul said something similar:

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows (Gal. 6:7).