Time for Harvest

So much of the country may not look like harvest time now. It's white! Snow white!

Jesus says, "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest." (John 4:27-45)

It's the spiritual harvest that is ready for them and for us. We don't have to wait for the best preparation or the way things have always been done. We don't have to worry about the finished job of people turning to Christ (reaping). Our work may be to sow seeds of Jesus love and truth.

The Samaritan woman sowed much truth and good news back in her hometown: "From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, 'He told me all the things that I have done.'"

But the big harvest came as those outcasts persuaded Jesus to stay on two days. The people then said to the woman, ""It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world."

Yes, Jesus has done the hard work of drawing people to Him. We just need to spread the news as He leads. Let's pray as He encouraged us in Matthew 9:37-38:    "Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.'"

Lord, send us!