Sowing to Please Who

DEVOTION
GALATIONS
SOWING TO PLEASE WHO
Gal 6:7-8
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
NIV
What field I am in certainly matters a great deal in this saying of God. It also matters just exactly where I am buying my seed that I will be planting. I really do not want to be in the position of sneering at God or turning up my nose to him. That would be the last thing I would want to do. But when I fail him and do what I should not or fail to do what I should is that mocking him? Is that sowing to please my sinful nature? Or is this taking about a lifestyle? Is this speaking to the choice between living for the world and living for God? Is this actually talking about living under the law or under grace? In the case of those Galatians, I think Paul was talking about living under Judaism or Christianity which is that choice between the flesh and the spirit. Not counting in circumcision of the flesh for salvation but rather of the heart. But it still boils down to a choice as to how I must live. I have chosen to sow to please the Spirit, yet I still please my own sinful nature as well. How can that be? Why do I fail him? Should I not be able to restrain my attitude, my reactions, my behavior from that which certainly cannot please the Spirit. I do not want to reap destruction that is for sure. But I do have to come back to the grace of God. He knows I desire to please him and he knows I am weak and unable to be perfect otherwise Jesus would not have had to die on that cross. But are my failures sowing to please the sinful nature? I think it still comes back to, where am I buying my seed to sow? Do I buy in the world or in the Word? Do I spend my efforts trying to gain insight in the world’s way of life or insight into the Spirits way of life? Do I spend my efforts trying to abide by all the rules and regulations of a certain denomination or do I spend my efforts trying to abide by the law of God? I have to come to the conclusion I am going to reap eternal life from the Spirit because I have turned my life over to him. I am trying my level best to be the man he desires me to be. Yes I fail at that, but that is not the way I want to be, I want to be a man after Gods own heart. I am sowing to please the Spirit.