Be Not Weary in Well Doing

The Reframe

Before: "All this effort isn't working." After: "In due season I shall reap, if I faint not. The harvest has a schedule; my job is not to quit."

Scripture Anchor

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." — Galatians 6:9In plain terms: Good effort pays out on harvest time, not payday time. The only way to lose the crop is to quit before the season turns.

"If ye will nourish the word … with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root." — Alma 32:41 (Book of Mormon) In plain terms: Alma compares faith (and really any good work) to a growing tree: long invisible root-growth before visible fruit. Invisible ≠ inactive.

Adams says most people quit right before the payoff, because growth is exponential — invisible accumulation, then sudden visibility, like water at 99 degrees. Scripture uses the older metaphor: seasons and seeds. Both teach the same brutal, hopeful math: the absence of visible fruit is not evidence the roots are dead.

"In due season" also quietly reassigns the schedule. You control the sowing and the nourishing; you do not control the calendar. That's freeing. The question each day is not "where's my harvest?" but "did I water today?"

How to Apply

When discouraged, ask the only fair question: "am I still nourishing it?" If yes, you're on track
Look for root-signals — small improvements, growing capacity — not just fruit
Set your quit-decisions by seasons (months), never by moods (days)
Remember whose department the "due season" is — and keep your own

Mantra

"In due season I shall reap, if I faint not. I water today."

Original Reframe

Adapted from The Payoff (Scott Adams / Akira The Don, Meaningwave).