Harvest.
Farmers can identify with this term, although the rest of us understand what it means.
To get what you’ve worked to earn. What you deserve. What’s available if you simply go out and get it.
Here’s the thing about a harvest, however. It might be out there, but if no one steps up to bring it in, it will rot in the field.
Rot, as in go bad, ruin, be good to no one.
That’s right. The crops in the field, overripe, splitting apart, becoming dried husks of the good they could have been.
Or wealth, wasted, frittered away by someone else. Drained into the cesspool of excess and greed.
Relationships, a potential spouse, even friends. Lost to the “what ifs” of our imagination.
Jesus tells us in Luke 10:2 NIV:
“And he said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.’”
Of course, our Lord is talking about potential souls that could be won to salvation. And that’s the core message we should take from this verse. We need to step up our game and let this be our challenge to spread the gospel at every opportunity.
At the same time, wealth that could be used to spread the gospel … lost to someone else’s pocket because we didn’t feel the need to reap that “harvest.”
Or relationships. Who knows the influence we could exert for the Lord when we step out of our “shell” and let others into our lives?
The harvest (souls, wealth, relationships) is plentiful. The laborers (us, the church, our fellow Christians) are few.
Let’s take on the Lord’s challenge … get out there … bring in what the Lord has provided.
Now’s our time. Let’s do it!
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