Open your eyes and believe!
John 4:31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
Jesus has been ministering to the woman at the well who after believing in Christ as her Messiah ran into town to share her good news with the whole town.
Jesus then told His disciples that there was a harvest of souls ready for the harvest but just a few labourers. Jesus said this no doubt to change the vision of His disciples, to open their eyes so they could see what He could see.
I am sure that as the disciples had approached Sychar they thought no harvest here! Just Samaritans!
Just the opposite was true and it is a lesson for us all. We as Christians living in Australia many times think that no one in Australia is interested in salvation or knowing Christ. Jesus wanted the disciples to learn that it takes faith to sow the seed, and we must do it even when we think nothing will come of it.
We never know who has been praying for the one you witness to. That back in their years as a child they possibly had been to Sunday school and had been told the message of Jesus Christ. We never know who has been labouring prior to our harvesting. Perhaps there has been years of praying by a faithful grandmother or loving aunt?
Or who will harvest from our seed planting. Remember it is our task to share the good news. God will look after everything else. Take faith this week, believe and ask God to open your eyes to see that the harvest is truly plenteous around you!
The only thing lacking in there being a successful harvest was the limited number of labourers to gather the fruit of the seed.
This is God speaking to you and I and asking us to seize the privilege of bringing in His harvest of souls. Will you answer Christ’s call? Will you this week take the step and either sow or reap. Remember it is God who brings the harvest to maturity and ripens the souls for gathering. I pray that you will join the labouring team. It is the greatest privilege one could ever be involved in. See you Sunday as we study John chapter 5 where Jesus finds a man who thinks God has forgotten him.