Has anyone reaped from what they have sown? Meaning, you paid for the error.

Question

Clarification: You were instructed by God to do or not to do one thing and you choose do to something else. Were there any negative repercusions from not listening to God?

Personal example: I am a Christian and was married 21 years. I found myself on the internet in chat, "married & flirting." Someone messaged me and advised, "You are doing wrong in God's eyes, leave the internet or you will reap what you sow." I didn't listen and not long afterwards, my spouse suffered a nervous breakdown, began to fool around on the internet, met women in real life, and left me for another woman. We have both since remarried to others, but I wonder what would have happened if I had left the chat.

Answer 1

Hello, I am answering because it doesn't seem as though you have had a response directly to your question!!



I, personally have not experienced this since becoming a christian, but do know of ones who have; especially young ones, who want to taste what the world has to offer and then find themselves in terrible trouble!



We are always warned to stay away from chat rooms because they can harm our spirituality. This did nearly happen to me, but I listened to good advice and now know differently.



Your going on the chat, could have influenced your husband to go on too, especially as he was going through a nervous breakdown at the time!



We are not perfect and do make mistakes, but it seems to me that you have thought about the situation and have learnt from that, which is what we are supposed to do.



What does seem funny, is that it was you going on the chat room, yet it was your ex-husband who committed adultery!



The advice is to listen to what our inner voice is telling us; that is if it is warning us of a move that perhaps is not adventagious.



I hope that helps.

Answer 2

This is a very interesting question. Although, I've can't think of any exact examples of this playing out in my life, I know it is true.

Life is a series of events each one being influenced by the former, and influencing the next.

The cool thing is it works both ways. If you sow love, grace, and blessings you will reap the same!

Answer 3

Are you serious? That happened because your now ex-husband made a choice. God didn't cause that to happen. Reaping what you sow is the same as every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Things happen in our lives because of the choices we make. You making the choice you did was not the cause of your husband's actions.

Answer 4

learn from your mistakes. Be good, kind, long suffering.

It isn't your fault. Satan controls the world. He is trying hard to break up families. And he is getting it done.

You have paid for your mistake so go on with your life as a new person. Be very faithful to your husband and be very good to your children. Help the widows and orphans and give to the poor. God will reward you.



Study the bible with Jehovah's Witnesses to learn how to please God well. And to bring your life into harmony with Jehovah's standards to get everlasting life.

Answer 5

Yes I use to seduce guys for sex only, i had a sex addiction and would o anything and everything just for the sex of it, and use to pretend to be who they wante dme to be to get them into bed and not care when they figured it out three months later. I found a man one day that could play the same game, wasn't fun because I fell inlove with him (never fell in love before) and it hurt like hell.

Answer 6

You are only wanting the negative reaction to reaping and sowing? There are good aspects of this as well

Answer 7

There are indeed consequences to every action, it is up to us to make sure the actions are good and loving so that the consequences are the same.



There, that's the whole "sin" meaning in a nutshell. :)

Answer 8

As there is no credible, verifiable, tangible, irrefutable evidence for any 'god', I doublt that 'divine intervention' had anything to do with the breakup of your marriage. Now, you are remarried. Take care of what you have.

Answer 9

Nothing, your husband was an asshole. You did nothing wrong. You were chatting on the internet. He was cheating on you. Do not blame yourself.

Answer 10

Yes.

Answer 11

God doesn't exist.



What happened to you and your husband makes sense outside of the context of religion.