Here is a devotion to start your day!
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Scripture: Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
Reflection
Weariness often comes when good has been done for a long time without much visible return.
You serve, give, pray, create, care, and keep showing up, but the fruit seems slow. When that happens, it becomes easy to look outside yourself for proof that the effort matters. If the outcome is not obvious, the heart can quietly begin to sag.
That is often how weariness grows—not always as open collapse, but as low-level defeat.
Part of the problem is that many people have been doing good from personal effort rather than from the power of the Spirit within. They begin to treat the good work itself as the goal, instead of seeing it as an expression of God’s love. And when the visible results do not come quickly, discouragement follows.
“Let’s not be weary in doing good…”
This is not a command to push harder. It is an invitation to return to the true source of strength. The first fruit of faithfulness is often inward before it is outward. God is forming something in you even before you see what He is producing through you.
Due season is not delay without purpose.
It is God’s timing for visible fruit.
You do not have to measure meaning by immediate results. You are not called to manufacture outcomes. You are called to keep walking with the Spirit, trusting that what He prompts is never wasted.
A Prayer of Presence
God of steady strength,
I sometimes feel tired in doing good. Draw me back to Your presence. Where I have depended on visible results to keep going, teach me to trust Your deeper work. Renew what is weary within me. Keep me from bitterness, discouragement, and quiet defeat. Help me lay my tiredness before You without shame. Strengthen me to continue in what Your Spirit is asking of me and teach me to trust Your timing for the harvest.
– Amen
Carry This Prayer With You
Breathe in: Renew my strength...
Breathe out: ... I will not give up
Your faithfulness is not empty because the fruit is slow. What is rooted in the Spirit is still growing, even when you cannot yet see the harvest.
This work is freely shared. If it nourishes your life with God, you’re welcome to help sustain it.