You get what you deserve. Your karma, good or bad, will seek you out. What goes around comes around. The Bible states this universal truth this way, you reap what you sow.

Early in the Exodus story Pharaoh ordered the death of all new-born Hebrew boys. Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.

Fearing the latent power of his rapidly expanding slave population, Pharaoh decided on murder as a management tool. Hebrew mothers and midwives ignored the ruling and hid babies (Moses among them). But Egyptian enforcers followed orders, and children died at their hands.

Years later the bad karma caught up in the final plague visited on Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt died, unless their doorpost was marked with blood, from Pharaoh down to the lowest prisoner. As the Lord promised, there was loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.

Actions have consequences. A later prophet described sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7). If anyone epitomized this description, it was Pharaoh. He sowed a homicidal order and reaped the death of his people’s greatest hopes.

I can’t help but wonder what consequences will follow from the callous disregard for life, both living and unborn, we see around us today? Choose life, as the scriptures say, and reap a full and good harvest.

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