Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Our great want is confessedly staying power. Impulse and spasm are common; not so permanence in character and conduct. The wheels of Christian energy begin rolling gaily enough; but are soon checked by weariness, depression, disappointment; and the result, too often, is failure. Against this weariness St. Paul here warns us, and he unfolds his thought in a parable. The husbandman sows his seed, which, in the act of sowing, passes out of sight. He waits with long patience for it to sprout and come forth; but he faints not, knowing that harvest as well as seed-time is an ordinance of God and cannot fail. So, after we have sown the seeds of effort and endeavour, we must not faint if the harvest does not follow on the heel of seed-time. I. THE ADMONITION. 1. We are sowers. 2. In our sowing, an absence of apparent results will beget weariness. Even Christ grew weary in His work, never of His work. Let us take care that our weariness is like His. 3. Our weariness, unlike Christ's, may arise from misunderstanding of the ways of God. His ways are hidden. Results do not appear at once. Slowly He works, but surely, and fast enough. Let us not be in greater haste. II. THE ASSURANCE. "Due season" is God's time, not ours. For us, it may not even be in this world at all; we may be only sowers here; still we shall reap one day — Christ will be no man's debtor. (William Scott.) Parallel Verses KJV: And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.WEB: Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up. |
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