‘What you sow, you reap.’ That’s how St Paul put it – five words for a massive universal principle. Actions create reactions, choices create consequences. . Time and again all of us are shocked and perplexed to find that what we’ve sown, we’ve reaped. And this week that very principle has shaped the news.
We may think, like Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York and scourge of sinners, that a decision to join a call-girl ring would be without consequences. He has found out how wrong he was. When the Bible says ‘Beware your sins will find you out’, it’s not talking about some divine judgment after death, but this immutable principle of choice and consequence. Our choices have consequences – and if they didn’t, there’s honestly not much point in making them.