What are some morally and spiritually good and bad seeds?
Submitted by sank on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 14:01
Some good seeds are: Love, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, showing mercy, generosity, compassion, friendliness, unselfishness, humility and many more.
These are godly principles.
Some bad seeds are: Criticizing, hating, violence, discord, gossiping, selfishness, pride, malice, slander, backbiting, inciting to do evil, creating conflicts, jealousy, envy, sexual immorality, injustice, creating distrust among people, planning ways to start a fight and so on.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter" (Isaiah 5:20).
"Woe to those ... who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent" (Isaiah 5:23).
"Deceit fills the hearts that are planning evil; joy fills the hearts that are planning good!" (Proverbs 12:20)
Therefore, let us sow godly principles and not the ungodly principles.
But you may be saying just as the Apostle Paul wrote, 'I want to do these good things but I can't. I go and do the opposite thing anyway'.
"We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do -- this I keep on doing.
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Romans 7:14-24)
Yes, it is impossible for us to do all these good deeds in our own strength. We need God's help.
Then how could we get help from God?
For that we need to establish a relationship with God. We could only do it through Jesus Christ.
