Verse of the Day for October 22

Paul talks like a farmer here. Sowing, reaping, seasons. Anyone who has planted anything knows that the work and the harvest are separated by a long stretch of nothing visible.

In due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Due season is not the season you would choose. It is the right season, the one the seed needs. Pulling up maize to check on it does not make it grow faster.

Farmers know something else too. Some years the rain fails. Some harvests are thin. And the next year they plant again. Beginning again is not a sign of failure in farming. It is simply how farming works.

That is why verse ten opens with As we have therefore opportunity. Each opportunity is a new planting. You may have tried to do good for someone and seen nothing come of it. Today is another field. You do not have to make up for the last season before you sow in this one.

Perhaps you are starting a new job after losing the last one, or rebuilding a friendship you thought was finished, or picking up a habit of prayer you let go. Plant the seed in front of you. The season is God's to name.

A failed harvest last year is not a reason to leave the field this year.

Good done today is a seed, even if you never see what grows.