Day 271: What About All Those Overlooked Harvests?
Read: John 4:35 - 38
What a whirlwind experience it has been for this woman at the well, this simple small village so isolated from their larger neighbors, Israel. What it is that has been opened up to them, revealed to them by this unexpected visit from Messiah
Jesus? What is it that has been revealed to us about our Messiah Jesus?
What lessons about our lives in the Kingdom of God can we glean, then
turn around make powerful use of in some other fields of mission and ministry? What fruit has been born within us, what seeds do we have to plant? Remember where we were before Messiah came to us?
Lives that were shut off from love? Busted, completely broken by sin?
War against death?
Messiah just sauntered in neat as you
please, approached our broken states without any fear of our response.
He quietly entered who we are and spoke to us the words of love and acceptance our hearts so desperately needed to hear and to experience. He quietly and yet decisively interrupted our mundane existence,
through a monkey wrench into the works of our lives. Clatter, clatter,
clank, one by one those gears of who we once were slowly, subtly come
flying apart. Flying everywhere, every which direction only to be put back together. Miraculously they fit better than ever before. I and you too are remade, reshaped into something that Messiah can use in the fields.
"Behold!" the Messiah says to us. "Behold, I say to you, lift up your
eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. (35b)" The
word harvest in the Bible is a vital and living reminder for us of the
many unforgettable things Messiah did for us when he sowed the seeds of
life, told us what we could do with our weeds. Harvest, significant
usages will stir our awareness to take a closer look on many areas of
our lives. Harvest, it will move our sensitivity to realize some hidden
sins in our lives that we should stop cultivating. We firmly believe
that not 1 man would like to overlook so remarkable a harvest, and no
man in his sound mind wants to avoid a joyful harvest.
My friends, what incredibly good news this is for us! In His own words, Messiah Jesus wraps up His short unannounced ministry to this forgotten little town
with this truly awesome reminder that the fields are "white for
harvest." Neglected lives, neglected fields as ours once were are set before us to sow the seeds Messiah sowed within us when He first came upon us. My friends, it is a time of great urgency. The time is so now. Heart aches and groans under the strain of sin, choices being made at our own expense, trembled under the strain of our greed and vanity. Look around you, please! Harvest is not four months away, it isn't tomorrow, it is today. Life's fields are ready!
Let Us Pray: Messiah, you have made us and loved us more than we
deserve. You have designed us to live in fellowship with you and with
each other. May your infinite gentleness fill us with an assurance
that you will hear us when we kneel and pray for your fallen and hurting
world. For those who are angry. For those are hurting. For those who
are suffering in isolation and those who are mired deep in sin and
shame. May the caring and gentle presence of their Messiah be upon them. May we come to a time when we who are your children care enough for them as you cared
enough for us. Messiah, may we come alongside one field, one soul today
who needs You!
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Read: John 4:35 - 38
What a whirlwind experience it has been for this woman at the well, this simple small village so isolated from their larger neighbors, Israel. What it is that has been opened up to them, revealed to them by this unexpected visit from Messiah Jesus? What is it that has been revealed to us about our Messiah Jesus? What lessons about our lives in the Kingdom of God can we glean, then turn around make powerful use of in some other fields of mission and ministry? What fruit has been born within us, what seeds do we have to plant? Remember where we were before Messiah came to us? Lives that were shut off from love? Busted, completely broken by sin? War against death?
Messiah just sauntered in neat as you please, approached our broken states without any fear of our response. He quietly entered who we are and spoke to us the words of love and acceptance our hearts so desperately needed to hear and to experience. He quietly and yet decisively interrupted our mundane existence, through a monkey wrench into the works of our lives. Clatter, clatter, clank, one by one those gears of who we once were slowly, subtly come flying apart. Flying everywhere, every which direction only to be put back together. Miraculously they fit better than ever before. I and you too are remade, reshaped into something that Messiah can use in the fields.
"Behold!" the Messiah says to us. "Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. (35b)" The word harvest in the Bible is a vital and living reminder for us of the many unforgettable things Messiah did for us when he sowed the seeds of life, told us what we could do with our weeds. Harvest, significant usages will stir our awareness to take a closer look on many areas of our lives. Harvest, it will move our sensitivity to realize some hidden sins in our lives that we should stop cultivating. We firmly believe that not 1 man would like to overlook so remarkable a harvest, and no man in his sound mind wants to avoid a joyful harvest.
My friends, what incredibly good news this is for us! In His own words, Messiah Jesus wraps up His short unannounced ministry to this forgotten little town with this truly awesome reminder that the fields are "white for harvest." Neglected lives, neglected fields as ours once were are set before us to sow the seeds Messiah sowed within us when He first came upon us. My friends, it is a time of great urgency. The time is so now. Heart aches and groans under the strain of sin, choices being made at our own expense, trembled under the strain of our greed and vanity. Look around you, please! Harvest is not four months away, it isn't tomorrow, it is today. Life's fields are ready!
Let Us Pray: Messiah, you have made us and loved us more than we deserve. You have designed us to live in fellowship with you and with each other. May your infinite gentleness fill us with an assurance that you will hear us when we kneel and pray for your fallen and hurting world. For those who are angry. For those are hurting. For those who are suffering in isolation and those who are mired deep in sin and shame. May the caring and gentle presence of their Messiah be upon them. May we come to a time when we who are your children care enough for them as you cared enough for us. Messiah, may we come alongside one field, one soul today who needs You!
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