Paul closes Galatians with practical exhortation to a church that has been fighting internal battles over circumcision and law-keeping. The danger of doctrinal weariness leading to practical abandonment of good works is real — Paul's answer is eschatological: the harvest is coming.

From the writers we read together

Mother Teresa

Missionary and Mystic, Calcutta

Teresa worked in conditions that should have produced despair in anyone watching. Dying people she could not save, poverty she could not eliminate, suffering she could not stop. Yet she persisted in the small acts of good — the meal, the clean cloth, the kind word — precisely because she believed the harvest was real even when invisible. Galatians 6:9 was the theology behind her practice: do not grow weary, because the reaping is coming.

The phrase 'in due season' (kairō idiō) uses kairos — the appointed time, the right moment — not chronos, clock time. God has a specific appointed time for the harvest of your faithfulness. The acts of good you have sown without visible result are not wasted; they are seeds in a field with a harvest date set by God. What good work have you been on the verge of abandoning because the season seems too long? Hold the plow one more day.