In the area I am residing in at this time, the harvest is over. The farmers are now on vacation, or they are busy preparing for next year's crop.
What would happen if (when the harvest was beginning) all the farmers just came, and met together, and talked about harvesting the crops, but never got out there, and got it done? There would be no income for the coming year. As devastating as that would be, I think about the church, and how we gather together, week after week, and we involve ourselves in church activities (which is necessary) but yet we neglect to be involved in the greatest work of all. The harvest of souls.
We can have such an inward, preoccupied, perspective on church matters, that we fail to look out our window, to the world, and see the needs that exist around us. So many people are walking without the Lord Jesus Christ in their lives. We have Him in our lives, but we fail to share Him with others.
I remember growing up on the farm, and of all the work that needed to be done, the harvest of the crops, was the greatest work of all. The work that we spent the most time on.
There are so many needs today! Are we as a church looking out our window, and seeing what we can accomplish through the Lord Jesus Christ. It's time to not only look out the window, but it's time to get out the door, and get some kingdom work done for the Lord! GP
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