Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Galatians 6:9

"And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." — Galatians 6:9 (ASV)

The great hindrance to good sowing is weariness that results in discouragement and eventually in giving up. Four months elapse between planting and harvest ; and, while it is true that in spiritual sowing the results may occasionally come sooner, more often they take much longer. The best reason for resisting weariness and giving up is that if the necessary preparation is done, the harvest is certain.

One cannot help feeling that Paul may be talking to himself as he thinks of the extensive but thus far unrewarding efforts he had expended on the churches of Galatia. The change to the first person plural supports this supposition.