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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"In due season we shall reap if we faint not." - Galatians 6:9.
When the sinner turns from the error of his way, submits to God and gives himself to the service of Christ, he thinks that he will never fail to enjoy the tokens of his Father’s favor. The change in himself is immense. He is now day and night intent upon doing the will of God, whereas formerly he recked not of it; he checks within himself a hundred impulses that formerly had full sway. He naturally expects that perpetual successes shall wait upon him in his efforts to do good. And at first, for the maturing of his faith, God often vouchsafes to him prompt and glad results. But he is soon called to pursue a higher walk of faith, and find long intervals between the seed-time and the harvest.
We shall reap. Others scatter in vain. Of all mankind, only the people of God shall gather a harvest unto everlasting life. They sow the seed that God gives them in the way appointed by him. They deny themselves for the good of others, of property, ease, friends, health; and whatsoever they do, they do for the glory of Christ. From men they oftentimes reap ingratitude, enmity, defamation. But these tilings only augment the splendor of their reward.
If we faint not. This prepares us for a stern trial of faith, for a long long period (at least so seeming,) in which we shall be giving much and receiving naught. We spend our days, our golden days, the most precious of all our possessions; we throw them as it were into a gulf, with all our energies, our intellectual efforts, our physical strength, the glow of our aspirations, the enthusiasm of our nature, our property of various kinds and so far as there is anything to show for it all, we may take up the refrain, " We have spent our strength for naught and our labor in vain," But if we endure unto the end, if we keep Christ’s works unto the end, if we faint not, we shall reap, and that, too, with a fullness surpassing our utmost conceptions.
In due season. What is the due season God can judge, better than any other. It is not so distant that we should be discouraged. It is sufficiently distant to afford an opportunity for the full exhibition of our faith.
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