Each spring thousands of farmers cultivate, and plant thousands of acres of farmland, filling them with various crops to be used for both human and animal consumption. One field may be filled with wheat to be eventually ground into flour to make bread, and a different field may be filled with potatoes, or a number of other food crops. Throughout the summer those crops will need to be taken care of by watering and weeding, and hopefully at the end of the growing season all of those plants will have produced a large yield to be harvested and ready to be sold. All of that work up to that moment, the plowing, the planting, the waiting while the plants grow, it all leads up to that moment, when the farmer “reaps” the fruits of his labors. He “gets rewarded” for the things that he did, and this is the topic of a passage in Galatians 6.
Galatians 6:7-9 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
In the same way that a farmer harvests his crops and reaps the rewards, each person will “reap” whatever they “sow” in this life. Were they living for Christ, as holy, kind, loving Christians? The reward to be reaped for this is eternal life.
Or did someone choose to go the other way? Did they decide to live the way they wanted to? Did they reject the love of Christ and live after the ways of the world? In lies, covetousness, i.e. sin? Those who choose to live like this will also reap a reward, but they will not like it once they receive it, because the payment for this kind of life is death. And not just death like their physical body dying, but it is eternal damnation.
John 5:28-29 “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
Galatians 6:9 “And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
The word weary means “having one’s patience exhausted; fatigued; or tired.” Put simply, we do not want to be tired of doing good to others. Ever. Do what is good and right constantly, continuously each day. Serve Christ and do good to all until the day you go to be with the Lord.
“…if we faint not.” The life of a Christian is a day by day process. Not just a passing fad that only lasts for a short while, but a lifetime goal and achievement. Day, after day, after day. A pattern, if you will, that only ends when the Lord decides that it is our time to come be with Him in Heaven.
Remember how the farmer reaps his crops? He was able to reap the reward for his works because he continued on, enduring, and waiting, until the fruits were ready for harvest. If he decided sometime in the middle of summer that he was tired of the life of a farmer, and went to live in the city, he wouldn’t have reaped the reward of his work.
Likewise, someone could hear about Christ, become a Christian, and begin a walk of faith in Him, but if they decided after a few years that they were done, and didn’t want to live for Christ anymore, they won’t receive the end result of a life of a Christian. Everlasting life.
Everlasting life is what we all as Christians are waiting for, yearning anxiously to obtain. But we need to wait. We need to have patience and endure.
This world is our testing ground, and we are given two choices: the first choice being a life of love, and serving Jesus, and the other being living in sin. Each choice has it’s own reward; to serve Christ one will receive a life in paradise, living forever. And the other; to live in sin will lead to eternal punishment.
Don’t be weary of doing good, have patience and endure to the end and you will receive your reward.
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 