“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:38 NIV
Feel what Jesus feels. He is overwhelmed by His love for people as He sees the vastness of the crowds, the perplexity of their problems, and the sense of urgency in reaching them. Then Jesus says, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” We need to know that the Pharisees, the religious leaders of Jesus’ day, saw the common people as chaff to be destroyed and burned up; Jesus saw them as a harvest to be reaped and to be saved. The Pharisees, in their pride, looked for the destruction of sinners. Jesus, in love, died for the salvation of sinners. Herein lies one of the great truths of the Christian faith: the harvest will never be reaped unless there are reapers to reap it. Jesus Christ needs men and women to bring in the harvest. Jesus’ followers today need to see people as Jesus saw them – as plentiful, precious, perplexed and perishing. What can we do? We can take responsibility for our field. Think of all the people we come into contact with every day: family, friends, neighbours, work associates, the woman at the cleaners, the guy at the car wash, our tennis buddies, and our sewing club. That is our field. We are responsible for them. We will never experience a sense of urgency and priority until we realize that we are responsible for sharing the Good News of the Kingdom of God with them.
PRAYER THOUGHT
Lord Jesus, open our eyes to our field around us.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Lord, we acknowledge that we will never experience a sense of urgency and priority to reach the lost until we realize that we are responsible for sharing the Good News of the Kingdom of God with them. AMEN
I.B.R.A. Readings
Song of Solomon 8:5-14
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