By well-doing here we are to understand, in general, the duties we owe to God, our neighbour, and ourselves. Is there any pause in the intercession of the Son? WELL-DOING. Does the Spirit tire of striving? Not only is a desire for novelty sometimes the occasion of weariness in well-doing something is to be attributed to the influence of sloth. The path is as much the king's highway as ever; its banks as green, its turns as beautiful, its trees as picturesque: but you have become weary, and your footsteps have flagged. If Paul could only know the consolation and hope that he has ministered to the countless generations who have marched along the pathway from the cross to the Kingdom above, he would be willing to go through a thousand lives and a thousand deaths such as he endured for the blessing that has followed since his noble head rolled in the dust by the Ostian gate of Rome. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. VI. The Apostle has been exhorting to unwearied well-doing, on the ground of the certain coming of the harvest season. He was born in Shropshire, England, December 18, 1864, and graduated from Richmond College, London University, in 1889. "Let us not be weary in well-doing" (Gal. That we may hold on a Christian course, let us labour for three persevering graces. H. BeibitzGloria Crucis21ST DAY. It is always associated with great difficulty. "In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not." AugustineOf the Work of Monks. They have been employed more or less vaguely by different writers. (2) The largeness of the problem. Watson.It is a strange sight, to see a busy devil, and an idle Christian.2. Now mark, brethren, what the text says, "Let us not be weary in well-doing." The expression "due," is a word which is elsewhere translated "own." Listen to what Job says: "When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.II. By its natural birth, from sinful parents, it is not in the kingdom of God, but in the realm and under the dominion of sin, death and the devil. It has learnt from Christ the lesson, caught the habit. The apostle means by this charge that we are not to allow any kind of weariness in right doing to arrest us in the discharge of duty, or to force us away from its path. The reward promised to patient labour. The rivalry of other workers.II. He was born in Shropshire, England, December 18, 1864, and graduated from Richmond College, London University, in 1889. That we may hold on a Christian course, let us labour for three persevering graces. So, for instance, you remember he puts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Glory of the Cross"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."--GAL. Christian slept in the arbour after ascending the hill Difficulty.II. The reaping time will come.2. Have strong faith in the promises: "My word shall not return unto Me void it shall prosper" (Isaiah 55:11). It transforms the mere doer into a well-doer. He was permitted to enter the room of the aged sufferer, to read the Bible, and pray by his bedside. One of my Sunday-school teachers came to me to resign her class, because she said she was doing them no good. That we may hold on a Christian course, let us labour for three persevering graces. Believers are not of it, or conformed to it; but they are in it, and they must live to promote its welfare.II. Weight, M. 'For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.'--GAL. It was when Peter followed from afar that he denied Him. Then there are the gates of unbelief, thicker and stronger than the gates of Gaza; which only the spiritual Samson can carry away. M. Punshon, D. D.)Be not wearyJames Sherman.I. They started off arm in arm, and were saved. And so we sow only that which we can reap now or that which the children in our households can reap here on earth. . 16 (R.V.). Working from wrong impulses.(1)Praise.(2)Pride. In judicious labour.2. L. Galton, M. The mighty name by which we are called.III. It is just the contrary; they are given to the soul in reality. The path is as much the king's highway as ever; its banks as green, its turns as beautiful, its trees as picturesque: but you have become weary, and your footsteps have flagged. It is evident the apostle referred not first to his labours. The evil to which the Christian is exposed, and against which he is cautioned weariness in well-doing.III. There is infinite goodness in this arrangement, inasmuch as it opens to us one of the richest sources of happiness; for what joy is comparable to that of bringing joy to others?II. How animating the motive to perseverance and progress in grace, that the fruit of these things shall be peace and joy unspeakable for evermore!(R. The Hindrances to MourningWhat shall we do to get our heart into this mourning frame? TRUE WELL-DOING BRINGS WITH IT APPROPRIATE RESULTS.1. To fully realize our obligation to do good.II. Study the history of Jesus of Nazareth. ship: for thou mayest be no longer steward."III. )The difficulty of well-doingH. .'--GAL. The reference in these words is probably to the cruel custom of branding slaves as we do cattle, with initials or signs, to show their ownership. See Westcott's account of it, On the New Testament Canon, p. 498 ff. How animating the motive to perseverance and progress in grace, that the fruit of these things shall be peace and joy unspeakable for evermore!(R. fastened in it you are dead while you live. The apostle doubtless understood that while the end is the first in God's purpose, it is the last in manifestation. So, for instance, you remember he puts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Glory of the Cross"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."--GAL. Love may be compared to the rod of myrtle in the traveller's hand, which refresheth him, and keeps him from being weary in his journey. The difficulty of the work. HOW TO PREVENT WEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. THE CHRISTIAN MAN'S VOCATION IN THE PRESENT WORLD, II, THE MOTIVE TO PERSEVERANCE IN IT, ARISING FROM THE ASSURANCE OF FINAL REWARD.I. Then the assumption is, that we have begun "well-doing," because he who has not begun to do well, can never be said to be in any risk or danger of being weary in it.2. (4)Feeling is not doing.1. We find St. Paul praying thrice that the thorn in the flesh might be extracted, before he received that answer which caused his soul to thrill with holy joy. A. And, on the other hand, no man can set himself to do good to others without receiving good himself. He moves them to deal mildly with a brother who has slipped,2. Let us not forget that "he that soweth to the flesh," etc. Does not every effort to help on the one hand, depress and deprave on the other? So, for instance, you remember he puts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Glory of the Cross"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."--GAL. The want of spirituality of mind.7. Watson.The husbandman doth not desire to reap till the season; he will not reap his corn while it is green, but when it is ripe; so we shall reap the reward of glory in due season; when our work is done, when our sins are purged out, when our graces are come to their full growth; then is the season of reaping; therefore let us not be weary of well-doing, but hold on in prayer, reading, and all the exercises of religion; we shall "reap in due season, if we faint not."(T. Some teachers get unstrung, and thus get into a slip-shod way. It is like pumping a sinking ship. Observe the spirit by which those. A Due Reaping. AugustineAgainst LyingOn Account Then of These Either Occupations of the Servants of God17. Learn from the devotee of many a false god; from the worshipper of Siva, who, drunk with opium, swings on the flesh-hook at some horrid festival, or prostrates himself before the advancing car of Juggernaut, making this revolting self-sacrifice to pacify the raging of a guilty conscience, or to gain the ephemeral applause of an ignorant mob; even he is not weary with his work.(H. . Watson. (3) This endurance is life's grand lesson. We now propose to consider more fully why this James Hudson TaylorSeparation and ServiceConcerted Prayer"A tourist, in climbing an Alpine summit, finds himself tied by a strong rope to his trusty guide, and to three of his fellow-tourists. L. Galton, M. D. Horwood.In the earlier days of Christianity, when it had to contend against the prejudices and intolerance of ages; when the bigotry of the Jew fiercely opposed it, and the philosophy of the Greek and Roman despised it, and when the bitterness of persecution grew up into greater fierceness, it was then that the earlier and devoted Christians, exposed to all manner of trial and death on all sides, had need of encouragement.I. . how can you expect to be blessed? The rivalry of other workers.II. vii. It was David's prayer, "hold Thou me up and I shall be safe;" and it was Beza's prayer, "Lord, perfect what Thou hast begun in me." We find Jacob wrestling with the wondrous angel of God's covenant through the entire night, and prevailing not till the morning began to break. The bestowment of rewards is a feature of God's government, as the doctrine which teaches it is a doctrine both of Scripture and of providence.(J. What, however, we have to do is to be faithful, to endure patiently our burdens, and to press onward in the strength of faith and hope.2. The evil to which the Christian is exposed, and against which he is cautioned weariness in well-doing.III. Our ways of doing good may often be antiquated and cumbrous. 1 The love of sin. THE MOTIVE THE TEXT ASSIGNS. Will not the love of Christ constrain him?3. and not weary of well-doing.12. It is evident the apostle referred not first to his labours. (3)The training of real home missionaries. What the apostle means by his expression, "due season." Now, the duty of "well-doing" embraces much of inner thought and of outward action; it embraces every Christian virtue that can be mentioned every good work that is worthy of the name; and among the many good things it includes, it most assuredly numbers among them the duty of supporting, of advancing the interests of "the house of God," as a means to an end, as an agency which the Almighty is pleased to adopt for the accomplishment of His own Divine ends, whether in the way of His Spirit or of His providence. There is much need of untiring effort to do good.2. But though "all be of grace," thy God calls thee to personal strenuousness in the work of thy high calling;--to "labour," John Ross MacduffThe Faithful PromiserCadman -- a New Day for MissionsS. 9). We shall reap the growth effectuated by His Holy Spirit, though we may not always understand the nature of the gracious sheaves that we are bringing in our bosom. I say there is no change in the motives to diligence and duty, which abide as at first; and if, after having gone a little way, or a long way, in the course of well-doing, whatever its peculiar form, you have become weary, it is you who have altered, and not the course. From this post he was called to Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, with but one exception the largest Congregational Church in the United States. I reply something is to be attributed in this tendency to the love which the human mind has for novelty. V. What is not proof of growth in grace. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. and to bear one another's burden;6. to be generous to their teachers,9. and to bear one another's burden;6. to be generous to their teachers,9. vi. By its natural birth, from sinful parents, it is not in the kingdom of God, but in the realm and under the dominion of sin, death and the devil. x. We find Jacob wrestling with the wondrous angel of God's covenant through the entire night, and prevailing not till the morning began to break. vi. III. 5. Supposing one soul is brought to Christ, and permanently united to Christ by the love and faith of the heart, so united that that soul becomes a faithful Christian soul, living a life of love and faith, doing good to others, and those others doing good to a wider circle still, and so from generation to generation the influence broadens, how can you calculate the result?3. The painter may be paralyzed, and his unfinished canvas be the best expositor of his malady. Christ has become the power of God to us.1. The Apostle has been exhorting to unwearied well-doing, on the ground of the certain coming of the harvest season. No; his desire was to do that which Christ did; he desired so to follow Christ as he himself exhorts others to follow Christ.III. (Admonition 28.) Was it not love, to fill the universe with animated beings, and to pour the riches of beauty and happiness over creation? We constantly forget that this life of ours is, as to everything mental and spiritual, the sowing time, not the time of reaping. Having, then, assumed this, that we have learned to care for our own souls, and to regard our own immortal interests, the next point to be considered is, that we are bound to engage in "well-doing" for our fellow-creatures; for it is especially to this that the text refers. )Reaping in due seasonT. Often pray to God. Do he must and will. Sunday School teaching is sowing. We are too ready to be "weary in well-doing," because we observe the apathy, the obstinacy, the carelessness, the ingratitude of those whom we seek to benefit.III. Man's life progresses, and each age has its character. At length his faith, his patience, and his submission received their rich reward: "behold, a certain man clothed in linen" appeared to him and said. THE CHARGE OF THE APOSTLE,.1. 9). To give you an instance of the use which is always made of it, I may mention the place where we are told that the Jews found fault with Christ because He made Himself equal with God, saying that God was His Father: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." THERE IS WELL-DOING OR GOODNESS THAT IS INCUMBENT ON US, viz., sowing to the Spirit. The struggle after a better Christian life.3. Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.III. He glories in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.Dictionary of Bible ThemesGalatians 6:94464harvest5418monotony5582tiredness5635work, and redemption5883impatience8418endurance8713discouragement9130future, theGalatians 6:6-105603wagesGalatians 6:7-94506seed5499reward, divine8255fruit, spiritualGalatians 6:9-106672grace, in relationships8262generosity, human8442good worksLibrarySeptember 19. (1)The seed you sow is the truth. R. Reynolds, B. Be it then observed, as Scripture teacheth, that the work is of grace, and the reward of grace. In the first place, your duty is, to be engaged "in well-doing;" that is to say, in doing well, in doing good, in doing that which is just and approved in the sight of God. Even Christ grew weary in His work, never of His work. His house is not confined to any one particular spot; it may be found on the broad ocean, in the midst of the desert waters, where the ship is turned into a sanctuary, and the incense of prayer and praise be made to ascend from her cabin or her decks. There are two things in connection with duty which it will be well for us to remember well-doing, and constancy in well-doing. (5)Satan and the world will be against us, so that we must fight and wrestle even in doing good. Consideration and regard for other's feelings and prejudices.II. M. Merry.I. Lift up Rev. Those who cease well-doing cannot obtain the promised reward.(J. They toiled a good while and got nothing. He could see that his own season might not be God's season. Take the most disagreeable task first: don't leave it until it becomes more burdensome than it is.2. The only proper prayer in such a case is, Lord, hold up our goings in a safe path; for if one slips all of us may perish.'"--H. Is a source of genuine joy.(D. But this is not the meaning of the word in the common and popular sense of it. how can you expect to be blessed? The second principle of standing fast and growing in righteousness, so as not to weary in well-doing, is that of love. The beauty of a thing is when it comes to be finished; the beauty of a picture is, when it is drawn out in its full lineaments, and laid in its orient colours; the beauty of a Christian is, when he hath finished his faith.(T. If left to itself--to the undisturbed development of G. A Due Reaping. Does not every effort to help on the one hand, depress and deprave on the other? And this for three reasons.1. . Brethren, it is true with regard to the world, "so long as thou doest well to thyself, men will speak good of thee;" it is true with regard to God, so long as you do well in His sight, shall you have His sanction and His smile.1. Weight, M. A.I. Brown, B. (George H. The words have not been taken in the same sense by all, a fact that obscures their sense. The path is as much the king's highway as ever; its banks as green, its turns as beautiful, its trees as picturesque: but you have become weary, and your footsteps have flagged. If we weary in well-doing, we shall be the only recreants from duty. Believer! In that day, the least thing done will secure you a revenue of unspeakable glory; whilst the greatest thing talked of and planned only will bring you nought but disappointment and shame.3. vii,--one of the longest in the Bible, and one full of repetition. The difficulty of the work. Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. The second persevering grace is hope. WE HAVE ABUNDANT ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PROSPECT OF REWARD.1. Was there any symptom of yielding, of inconstancy there?3. The traveller gets weary on his journey, whether by sea or land; the student bending over his studies through a long period, cannot escape that fatigue which attends a close and intense application of thought; the labourer, when his day's work is done, often turns to his home with a tired look and a faltering step; the sick man upon his couch feels the passing hours to be weary as they creep through the darkness of the night or the light of day, bringing no ease to his pains nor strength to his weakness; the watcher by the bedside grows faint with watching, and the overtasked eyes grapple with the slumber that steals upon them in vain. And the boy looks from the beginning of his arithmetic through to the last page, and says: "I shall never get through that."2. Remember the evil one never gets discouraged or weary.4. Help others. The text may be regarded, in the first place, as marking out the Christian man's vocation in the present world. It is hard to deal with hard cases; but when we have struck the water of life in any one, after that we have overflowing remuneration even here.(H. "I bear in my body," Jeanne Marie BouviresA Short Method Of Prayer And Spiritual TorrentsTranslator's Introductory Notice. The promotion of the public good in Sunday Schools, mission work, etc.5. Burns, D. D.)Weariness in well-doingReuen Thomas.Well-doing may be of two kinds subjective, the doing well to ourselves simply; objective, the doing well towards others. God acts not without a plan.3. We are too ready to suppose that our exertions for the present and future benefit of our fellow-creatures are utterly without success, because we do not see the success. He does not always, alas, do right; but it is the object of religion of revelation to induce him to do so. Well-doing must respect the Church. The original sense, "a straight rod" or "line," determines all its religious applications, which begin with St. Paul's use of it for a prescribed sphere of apostolic work (2 Cor. Kanon, as an ecclesiastical term, has a very interesting history. H. GerberdingThe Way of Salvation in the Lutheran ChurchAnd to Holy David Indeed it Might More Justly be Said22. The special encouragement which the apostle presents. What is proof of growth in grace. "Give an account of thy steward. A Due Reaping. 17. It is just the contrary; they are given to the soul in reality. Strengthens our faith in the power of well-doing.3. He sees the triumph of all that you struggle for, the defeat of all that you hate. Was it not love, to fill the universe with animated beings, and to pour the riches of beauty and happiness over creation? Working from wrong impulses.(1)Praise.(2)Pride. Believer! Learn from the devotee of many a false god; from the worshipper of Siva, who, drunk with opium, swings on the flesh-hook at some horrid festival, or prostrates himself before the advancing car of Juggernaut, making this revolting self-sacrifice to pacify the raging of a guilty conscience, or to gain the ephemeral applause of an ignorant mob; even he is not weary with his work.(H. We, not our successors, will reap.3. vi. Keep near to the Master. In these cases there is distress, indeed, but no disgrace; pity, but not scorn: but let a work be begun, and left through vacillation of purpose a great work be undertaken, and be unfulfilled through childish waywardness, and no wonder if they that go by "begin to mock," while the artificer is ashamed and distressed. To have generous minds.2. The third persevering grace is love. But Paul has a way of setting side by side two superficially contradictory clauses, in order that attention may be awakened, and that we may make an effort to apprehend the point of reconciliation between them. The path is as much the king's highway as ever; its banks as green, its turns as beautiful, its trees as picturesque: but you have become weary, and your footsteps have flagged. Weariness. We now propose to consider more fully why this James Hudson TaylorSeparation and Service, Concerted Prayer"A tourist, in climbing an Alpine summit, finds himself tied by a strong rope to his trusty guide, and to three of his fellow-tourists. v. 6. The apostle doubtless understood that while the end is the first in God's purpose, it is the last in manifestation. Christ has become the power of God to us.1. THE CHRISTIAN MAN'S VOCATION IN THE PRESENT WORLD, II, THE MOTIVE TO PERSEVERANCE IN IT, ARISING FROM THE ASSURANCE OF FINAL REWARD.I. Hope breeds patience, and patience breeds perseverance. Reflect that the work and weariness will soon be over in that land of rest where we shall be burdened no more.(H. This is what he is specially called to the business of his life his "being's end and aim."1. It is just the contrary; they are given to the soul in reality. At last one threw down his tools and said: "I will leave here before we starve," and he did leave. III. R. Reynolds, B. A.Let us not be weary in well-doing in consequence of I. vi. Then I might urge the exhortation by a reference to the self-discipline which is secured by perseverence especially perseverence in a course of self-denial.4. In this respect a good man partakes of the Spirit of that holy and righteous Being who hateth the workers of iniquity, and with whom evil cannot dwell. Weariness of mind and of body is common to most men. "In due season we shall reap," etc. Do he must and will. Live in unseen communings.II. VI. )Reaping in due seasonT. Those who grow weary in well-doing, so as to forsake the ways of practical godliness, lose all their former labour and pains in religion. R. Reynolds, B. A.Let us not be weary in well-doing in consequence of I. Watson.It is a strange sight, to see a busy devil, and an idle Christian.2. The same motives enforce constancy. grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart." So, then, two thoughts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Owner's BrandI bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.'--GAL. YOUR WORK IS WELL DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT.1. Stevenson.)I. We find Daniel, in the reign of Cyrus, saying "In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks; I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled." "Even the youths shall faint and be weary but they that wait on God shall renew their strength" (Isaiah 60:30).4. (2)The rearing of a generation of worship-loving people. W. Beecher.When I dug my well, I knew that there were rocks below, and when I had thrust down the pick and spade through the easily yielding earth until they struck the rock I found no water. But to stay on the level, to live in the clear upper air, to soar untiring as an angel, to work unresting as Christ, this is the strain of life. How animating the motive to perseverance and progress in grace, that the fruit of these things shall be peace and joy unspeakable for evermore!(R. vi. 1 The love of sin. Clay Trumbull The pious Quesnel says that "God Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerExcursus on the Use of the Word "Canon. Take the most disagreeable task first: don't leave it until it becomes more burdensome than it is. The man who is resolved to ruin himself has the evil propensities of his fallen nature to help him. In the remarkable work known as his Retractations, Augustin makes a brief statement on the subject of this treatise on the Harmony of the Evangelists. But Paul has a way of setting side by side two superficially contradictory clauses, in order that attention may be awakened, and that we may make an effort to apprehend the point of reconciliation between them. Was it not love, to form man after the image of God, and to breathe into him a thinking, reasonable, immortal spirit? Will meet with its reward.1. Text--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. Duty to God.2. Christian slept in the arbour after ascending the hill Difficulty.II. While growing up I was introduced to Well-doing from right motives is the most difficult of all works. Horwood. We now propose to consider more fully why this James Hudson TaylorSeparation and ServiceConcerted Prayer"A tourist, in climbing an Alpine summit, finds himself tied by a strong rope to his trusty guide, and to three of his fellow-tourists. Seek to understand the hidden laws of that outward and inward life. The weary and hopeless outnumber the careless, if one may judge by the eager throng which presses into the field when some direct, immediate good is set before them as capable of being done. )Unwearied in errorH. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."3. Christians are the pledged disciples of the Great Worker in this field of holy exertion. 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