Mensa Otabil - In Due Season
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Galatians chapter 6, verse 9: «Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart.» Yesterday, I talked about waiting, and I’m continuing in the same direction. Whatever we sow, we reap. Due season. Have you had people do something bad, and you just wish that instantly some judgment would hit them? When they don’t face instant judgment, well, there is a time for God’s judgment, but it’s not yet. There is a due season.
In the same way, there are people who do a lot of good and wish that something could happen to them instantly, but there is also a due season when the seeds we have sown come back into harvest. The Bible talks about due season, so what is due season? The concept comes from sowing and reaping. A farmer, if you sow your corn- for us in Ghana, we do it around April or May, thereabouts- and then three months later, around August, your harvest comes.
Now, you don’t sow at the sowing time and just reap the next week. There is a season, a due season. A due season is when things happen, the time when things happen. When a woman gets pregnant, they don’t give birth instantly. There is a due season, and the due season will be a nine-month period. We have to learn to patiently wait and not get weary. Of course, I have not been pregnant before, but I know that the waiting period can be very difficult, especially as you advance in your pregnancy. But you have to wait. What can you do? Just wait, because the baby is going to come. Similarly, God is telling you that the things you have started working on, and trusted Him for and believed Him for, are going to happen.
There is a due season, and especially as it gets closer to the due season, it becomes heavier and heavier and more difficult to carry on. But if you wait and don’t faint, the due season will come. Every promise of God for you has a due season. The purposes of God have a due season, and you have to wait for that time. The due season is also related to a concept called the fullness of time. Fullness of time and due season go together, but they are not the same.
For example, if a woman gets pregnant, the due season is a nine-month period, but granted, if two women got pregnant on the same day, in that nine-month period, they may not have their babies on the same day. One will have a baby first, and then maybe the second day, the other one has a baby, and so on. Why? Because fullness of time is not the same for everybody. So all of us may be in our due season, but all of us may not be in the fullness of time. That is why sometimes someone will get what they desired ahead of you, and it doesn’t mean your season has passed. It just means your fullness of time has not come. It may be a day earlier, maybe a year earlier, but God is definitely going to do it for you.
So, anytime we believe God, anytime we trust God, anytime we pray, there is a due season for the manifestation of the answer. But within the due season, there is a fullness of time, and when you are working with the fullness of time, you don’t look at what is happening to others to judge yourself, because their fullness of time may not be your fullness of time. One thing you can be sure of: God is faithful, and God is trustworthy. If you trust Him, He’ll come through for you, and He would never be late.
Let’s pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, I thank You that in due season and in the fullness of time, I will receive Your promises. In Jesus' name, Amen and Amen.»