Gal. 6:7-10 – Laboring for a Good Reward

Reverend Leo H. McCrary II

We must not grow tired, especially not today, in putting good into the world.

Today’s devotional reading: Galatians 6:7-10

Surely you have heard the saying, “You reap what you sow”? Paul spoke of this thought to the Galatian believers when he spoke of doing the good work. The good work that all believers should be participating in is the work of love and care. Because the Lord has loved us with unmerited love, we should be encouraged to love others with the same love.

Yet, it is incredibly difficult to love in a world where you receive little love from those you don’t know. Apathy and hate are the way of man that is growing in this land and all over the world. We don’t care about each other as we should, as we think so little of the lives of those who are around us. We are slow to help the stranger and those who are less fortunate than we are, because we are more concerned with caring for ourselves and those we are close to.

Jesus asked, “If you love those who love you, what reward have you?” When He asked that question, Jesus pointed to the tax collectors, those who were viewed as being wicked, to prove how little it is to love those who love you. The tax collectors were viewed as wicked people, and Jesus said that they go about loving those who love them. The calling of the child of God is far greater than what those who are of sin do naturally.

The day is coming when God will ask, in judgment, what do your works say for you? God is going to judge us for how we cared for the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, and the prisoner. Will your works show that you cared or didn’t care? As Paul said, every opportunity we have to put good into the world, let us do it, and God will not forget your labor of grace (Heb. 6:10).