By: Pastor Johnie Akers
Galatians 6:9, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” He never gave up. For American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto, persistence paid off. After his fellow astronomers calculated a probable orbit for this “suspected” heavenly body, Tombaugh took up the search in March 1929. Time magazine recorded the investigation: “He examined scores of telescopic photographs each showing tens of thousands of star images in pairs under the dual microscope. It often took three days to scan a single pair. It was exhausting, eye-cracking work—in his own words, ‘brutal, tediousness.’ And it went on for months. Star by star, he examined 20 million images. Then on February 18, 1930, as he was blinking at a pair of photographs in the constellation Gemini, ‘I suddenly came upon the image of Pluto!’” It was the most dramatic astronomic discovery in nearly 100 years. Clyde Tombaugh had reaped the rewards of his relentless search. Our text today relates a powerful principle in the kingdom of God called “due season.” In fact, it is an immutable principle establish by God as part of His creation. After the flood, the Lord told Noah in Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease.” In simplistic terms one could say that whatever is sown, will be reaped. In the springtime, a farmer plants his seed. In the late summer, he reaps his crop from what had been sown in the spring. Harvest time is “due season.” It is the culmination of labor. Yet if sowing is not completed, or after sowing there is no cultivation—no watering, no weeding, no fertilizing—then a potential crop will be aborted. Far too often we fall short of a goal simply because we fail to finish. Today, whatever task you have set your mind to, determine to finish. Being faithful during the process of “brutal, tediousness” will reap immeasurable rewards and usher you into the due season of a new day.
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