Latest / Beliefs, Ballots, And BullDawgs / Friday June 5, 2026
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- Greg: Hey, what's up, guys? Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of Beliefs, Ballots, and Bulldogs. It is Friday, June 5th, and I'm your host, Greg Miller. The theme of the day is you become what you repeatedly do, not what you believe and not what you intend, not what you post about, what you repeatedly do. ⁓ the apostle Paul tells us in the book of Galatians, chapter six, verses seven and eight, do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man weep reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please the flesh from the flesh will reap destruction. Whoever sows to please the spirit from the spirit will reap eternal life. It's one of the most practical and powerful verses in all in all of scripture to me. God is God is basically giving us a a principle for life. You reap what you sow. Not occasionally, not some of the time, consistently, all the time. And whether we realize it or not, we are we are always, always planting something every day. And this to me, this is this is what makes the message so so powerful and and hit so hard is Paul is Paul is not talking about farming here. You know, the the reaping and sowing analogy is is clearly a farming metaphor, but Paul is Paul's talking about life. Every decision is a seed. Every habit, every conversation, every click, every every hour of the day. Every relationship, every prayer, every promise, every compromise, every act of honor or integrity, they're all seeds. We we've been talking about it and and it's been kind of a running theme in in the the passages lately. Pe people tend to focus on and think that life has changed in large monumental occurrences and and and massive life situations and these giant life-changing moments. But the Bible teaches us regularly that your your life is more often changed in the in the seasons where you're supposed to be planting. Nobody wakes up one day with a great marriage and strong faith and wonderful children and and a and a fine reputable character. Those things were were planted years in advance and and cultivated and worked on. And just likewise, nobody Nobody wakes up in the other direction. Nobody wakes up one day with a broken family or a destroyed reputation, massive financial debt, or the worst case, spiritual emptiness. All of those things were were planted previously too. And here's here's the tricky part. Here's the the hardest-hitting part of it at all for me is the harvest doesn't care about what you intended to plant. It only responds to what was actually sown. We we see this all the time. We we've got a a massive problem with accountability in the world and nobody wants to look at their current situation from from a perspective of it being a culmination of their choices. So i y we see people who are constantly or at least perpetrating themselves to be shocked by outcomes. And i if you look at the inputs, we we shouldn't be shocked by these outcomes. And and the Bible is calling us consistently to examine the inputs that that lead to these outcomes. You know, we we ask ourselves, you know, look around, why is why is the world so angry? Well, I mean, maybe because anger has been cultivated and and fed. We ask ourselves all the time, especially, you know, it's it's a current theme for me, trying to figure out why is trust disappearing? Like look around this world. I don't trust anything, you don't trust anything. We have conversations and engagements with people all the time. And we don't listen to or process a word they're saying because we just don't believe anything these days. Why is trust disappearing? Well, trust is disappearing because as a society, we stopped valuing honesty and we stopped valuing the truth. We ask ourselves all the time, you know, look around. Why why are families struggling? Well, maybe it's because we've spent decades planting individualism and and harvesting isolation and and And planting all these seeds that that were meant to disrupt the nuclear family. You know, whether whether people agree politically or not, the the question is powerful. What seeds are we planting? Because it's eventually whatever seeds you plant, that is going to become the harvest. And then in verse eight, Paul takes it a a little bit deeper. You know, Paul is telling us there's there's really two directions here. You can you can sow towards temporary things. Or you can sew towards eternal things. And the scary thing is, most people think they're making isolated decisions. And so they're focusing on the temporary of those decisions. But the Bible says all of these decisions we're making, we're essentially choosing a direction. We're we're choosing the earthly or the eternal. One choice won't define your life, but repeated choices will. And again, we we get back to it. And this is one I know we all can struggle with. The harvest doesn't care about your intentions. The harvest responds simply and solely to your actions. All right, guys, we got 92 days into UGA football, and the number 92 makes me do something I I'd never thought I would do. And I'm gonna I'm gonna honor a punter. I I you gotta you gotta love it. Just just wrapped up his career in Athens. You gotta love the the Australian, the the Aussie footballer Brett Thorson. ⁓ not only one of the the best punters to ever roll through Athens and wear the red and black, but but from all the interviews and and the social media presence, just seems like a cool dude. ⁓ he he he's a great interview, he's a he's an internet trolling legend. you know, for for a punter, the dude seems to have a lot of fun. The team seems to absolutely love him and I don't know. I you know, he I I think Brett was ⁓ came to Athens a a few years advanced of your normal college life. So he may have been rolling around Athens as a, you know, twenty three, twenty four year old and I don't know, somebody who spent a little time in in the Athens, ⁓ Athens, Georgia scene. I can only imagine that he had a pretty fun time at h at his tenure in Athens, Georgia with that awesome accent and long hair. I I bet the ⁓ I bet the lovely co eds in Athens, Georgia were We're all big fans of number ninety two Brett Thorsen as well. But dude could absolutely kick a football. And ⁓ he was he was one of the few times where you kinda you smiled when the punter came on the field 'cause 'cause you knew it was it was a chance that you might see the punter even do something special. So God bless you, Brett Thorson. Ninety two days, guys. Let's let's keep the countdown going. Can't can't get here fast enough. Let's ⁓ let's circle back. Whether whether we're talking about politics or culture or marriage, parenting or faith or Or our own personal lives. It doesn't matter what it is, the the Bible is telling us that the principle never changes. It it's been a consistent theme over the last week, week and a half. I feel like most of our daily devotionals, most of these messages have been leading us in this direction. We're all planting something. And the question is, what kind of harvest are we creating? Galatians six, seven through eight. Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked, a man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from flesh they will reap destruction. Whoever sows to please the spirit, from the spirit they will reap eternal life. I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what Paul's telling us here. Five years from now, the life you're living will largely be the harvest of the seeds you're planting today. So, best advice I could give you is plant carefully. That's it for today, guys. As always, get in your Bible, say your prayers, love one another, and tell the truth. God bless.