The Day Nobody Asks About It

The last person asked about it in April.

Since then, nothing. Not one question. It comes up occasionally as a joke and nobody means anything by it, and the whole thing has become a piece of history that only you are still standing inside.

That is the season nobody writes about.

There is a great deal said about the crisis. There are conversations during it, and people check on a man, and there is a kind of energy in it even when it is terrible.

And then there is this. Six months on, the door still opens at six, and nobody in that building or that town has anything to ask you.

Here is the thing you have not said to anybody.

It was easier when it was loud.

Not better. Easier. When four people a day were asking, there was something to be steady about and somebody watching you be steady. There was a job with an edge on it.

Now there is a Tuesday, and another Tuesday, and a man of sixty-three doing everything properly with nobody checking anything at all.

And you have caught yourself, twice in the last month, doing a thing slightly less carefully than you would have in March.

There is a verse about exactly this stretch and the instruction in it is not what people think.

Be not weary in well doing

Paul writes about a stretch with no visible result and gives one instruction.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:9, King James Version)

Be not weary in well doing. That is the instruction, and it is worth noticing what kind of weariness he means.

Not tired from the work. Weary in the doing of good, which is a specific thing: the flatness that comes from doing right in a stretch where nothing appears to come of it.

You have been named by that verse rather than described in general, and the Holy Spirit is the one who wrote it that precisely. Galatians 6:9 puts the weariness inside the well doing rather than after it, and He wrote it for the six months rather than for the loud week.

Now let me be careful about the middle of that verse, because it is not a forecast and this site does not make them.

It says in due season we shall reap, and nothing here is going to turn that into a promise about your figures or your next quarter or anybody's numbers. I do not know those and neither does anybody writing anything.

What the verse actually does is put the instruction on the last clause. If we faint not. That is the part that belongs to a man.

You have been given one clause that is yours rather than a prediction, and it is written if we faint not, which is the only part addressed to anybody. The Spirit of God is the one holding the rest of it, and Galatians 6 leaves the timing entirely with Him.

And here is the thing about the twice in the last month, because that is what actually brought you here.

Doing a thing slightly less carefully than in March is not a moral collapse. It is exactly the fainting the verse names, at its earliest stage, and it is being caught early rather than late.

You have caught it at the beginning rather than at the end, and the Holy Spirit is the one who made you notice. Scripture names the fainting as the thing to watch rather than as a failure that has already happened, and Galatians 6:9 is what He made you notice against.

What the flat season is actually for

Let me say something about the six months, because a man of sixty-three deserves better than encouragement.

The loud week did not test anything. It required a great deal of you but everybody was watching and there was adrenaline in it, and adrenaline will get anybody through ten days.

This is the part where a man finds out what he is. Doing it properly at six in the morning in October with nobody asking, nobody checking and no story in it at all.

That is not a lesser season. That is the actual one, and it has always been the actual one, and the loud week was the easy part.

You are inside the season that shows what a man is rather than the one that showed what he could do, and it is written that the well doing is where the weariness lives. The Spirit of God is the one who is present in an October Tuesday exactly as He was in the loud week, and Galatians 6 does not rank them.

And there is one more thing, which is about who is looking.

Nobody in that town is asking. That is true and it is not going to change. The story is over for everybody except the man who is still standing in it.

But the not asking is not the same as nobody looking, and those two got welded together somewhere in the last six months.

You have somebody looking who never asked in the first place, and the Holy Spirit is the one who has been in that building since April with nothing to ask. The written word puts the whole instruction on not fainting rather than on being observed, and He was there before the loud week too.

One thing nobody will check

So here is the thing to do, and it is this morning, and nobody will ever know about it.

Pick one thing that nobody checks. There are several, and they are easy to identify, because they are the ones that have started getting moved through slightly faster.

Do that one properly. All the way. The way you did it in March when four people a day were asking.

And do not tell anybody you did it.

You are doing well when there is no audience rather than performing anything, and Galatians 6:9 says be not weary in well doing. The Spirit of God is the one in the room for it, and He does not need to be told.

The reason it has to be a thing nobody checks is that the checked things are already fine. They have been fine all along, because checking keeps them fine.

The unchecked ones are where a man's own condition actually shows, and one of them done properly this morning is worth more than a resolution about the whole autumn.

You have one thing this morning rather than a season to get right, and the Holy Spirit is the one who counts that one thing. It is written that the instruction is if we faint not rather than if we finish well, and Galatians 6:9 leaves the rest with Him.

Then open the door again in the morning, which is the whole of what has been asked.