Verse of the Day
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
Galatians 6:9
What this verse means
Near the close of a heated letter, Paul tells tired believers not to give up on doing good. The harvest he promises is not a quick payoff. It ripens in its own season, on a clock that is not ours.
Galatians 6:9 comes at the end of a passionate letter Paul wrote to churches he feared were losing their way. In the final chapter he turns practical, with a farming image everyone understood: a person reaps what they sow. The lines just before it sharpen what he means. Sow to your lower appetites and you harvest decay; sow to the Spirit and you reap a life that lasts. So the call that follows, to not grow weary in doing good, points to the slow work of becoming good and doing good to others. It is not a technique for getting ahead.
Paul is writing to people who were tired, discouraged, and tempted to quit, and the metaphor carries a truth they knew in their bones. A farmer plants, then waits through a long stretch where nothing visible happens, trusting a harvest he cannot yet see. The "due season" is not on the sower's schedule; it belongs to the crop and the soil. And the good sown into other people often yields in a form the sower may never fully see. The promise is real. It simply does not pay on demand.
The phrase the translation renders "in due season" is, in Greek, kairo idio, "in its own proper time," a time that is fixed but not ours to rush. And "lose heart" or "give up" (ekkakeo) carries the sense of going slack from exhaustion, the way anyone does when effort drags on with no reward in sight. The verse names that exact fatigue and answers it: the season is real and already on its way, even when nothing in the field shows it yet.
