All In Due Time

UV 2919/10000 All In Due Time
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not
Galatians 6 v 9

Many people I have come across get tired of helping others. They feel they have been unfairly used by those who sought their help or benefitted from them in some way. This uni-verse encourages us not to look for favours to be returned but instead look to the Lord who will reward our good works in due time. We should not get tired of doing good or expect gratitude from the people we do good to. When we do good in the name of Jesus, we are sowing or investing in the kingdom of God and we will also enter a season of reaping or harvesting from the good we have sown.

We should learn from the example of Jesus: During His earthly sojourn He healed hundreds upon hundreds of people, He delivered many, He ministered to thousands. Yet even His own disciples deserted Him when He was arraigned as an accused before the authorities of the day. He did not expect all those He healed or delivered to rally to His side but He focussed on how His Father in heaven would receive Him once the ordeal of crucifixion and the glorious resurrection happened on the third day. On the third day, He came into His inheritance and now He sits on the right hand of the Father administering the universe.

We should therefore persist in doing good even to those who seem unworthy or undeserving of our help. When we keep doing good, we are sowing in the spirit of righteousness. Our zeal to do good should not flag or waver. We should not get disappointed or bitter even if all we get in return for a time is indifference, hostility and even abuse. People may suspect our motives and even steal the credit but our confidence being fixed on the Lord should remain steadfast and endure till the very end. We may even find our troubles and hardship increasing as we do more and more good but we should remind ourselves with the key words: all “in due time”.

Prateep V Philip