Harvest

Harvest. As I drive around the great state of North Carolina, I have noticed that the harvest season has begun on some of the crops along the sides of the road. I have noticed that the lower leaves of the tobacco plants have started the process of being primed. It’s so interesting to watch over the next couple weeks as the tobacco fields become less and less populated with tobacco leaves and the field starts showing through. It won’t be much longer and the corn will start going through the same process.

As fall arrives, the activity of the local farmers starts to get increasingly more frantic. The end of the season is coming and the crops have to be harvested so that they do not die and become useless and money is not lost. Farmers spend their hard earned money each year to plant seeds in hopes that their investment in the seeds will provide profit in the crops.

This time of the year always brings to mind the words of Jesus to His disciples, “Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." - John 4:35-38.

“Then he said to his disciples, ‘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.’”- Matthew 9:37-38. Are you taking part in the Lord’s harvest?  Are you planting seeds, watering those that have already been planted, or are you taking part in the reaping?  This world is in desperate times and the great and terrible Day of the Lord is closer every day. Let us do our part in taking part in the harvest.

Have a great day and God bless.