Apples of Gold - April 17

Sin leaves marks on us. Consider the alcoholic, who, after years of heavy drinking, gives his life to the Lord. Do all the wrinkles and marks of a hard life suddenly smooth out? Of course not. Paul tells us that we are to live our Christian lives by “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before” (Philippians:3:13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
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"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

—Galatians:6:7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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