In Mathew 9:37,
He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few."
Jesus challenge was not the Harvest, but the workers. God does not have a problem with the harvest but the availability of workers. God is looking for labourers; He is looking for workers.
He is not looking for any kind of worker or labourer, but labourers that are rooted in Him. Labourers that know Him and love Him. He is looking for labourers who are not distracted by the cares of the world.
WHAT IS A HARVEST?
Harvest is the process of gathering in crops or the amount or measure of your investment. The crops that are ripe and ready to gather.
In spiritual and biblical terms we know that the harvest Jesus was talking about here are human beings, souls who will spend eternity either in hell or heaven.
So as He looked at the people who were following and trying to touch Him, His heart went out to them. Each harvest we see is an invaluable soul. The harvest field we see represents lost souls. Lost souls with different issues, challenges, bondages and different afflictions that need solutions.
THE YEAR OF THE LORD’S HARVEST
I believe in my heart that 2015 will be a year of the Lord’s harvest for us as a Church. For us however to be able to reap this harvest we must be rooted in Christ. Jesus has to be the centre of everything we do.
When Jesus looked at the people who were following Him and longing for a touch from Him, He saw a harvest field and was filled with compassion. The Bible says His heart went out to them as He saw a people that were scattered all over the place without help or guidance. He cried out for labourers.
In John 4:35 He said to His disciples,
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!
Jesus wants us to take off the spiritual blindfold and see the harvest field. Jesus does not want the church to close her eyes to a dying world. He does not want us to continue ignoring the cry of the lost. He wants us to open our eyes wide and see. If the church can just take on the eyes of Jesus for a second, a minute, for an hour or a day we probably will not look at the world with dry eyes anymore.
Jesus did not stop at just telling the disciples about the harvest. He equipped them and sent them out to the harvest field. Mathew 10:1 And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.
Just as Jesus anointed the disciples and sent them out, we cannot deny that we have been equipped to go out and gather the harvest in. In the book of Acts 1:8
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
In Mark 16:16-17,
"And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Those who believe in His name, you and I believe in His name.
The gathering of the harvest is not our work; it is the work of the Holy Spirit ours is to make ourselves available to preach Christ and the Holy Spirit will do the rest. He is the treasure in this earthen vessel.
Charles Spurgeon, a revivalist of old says: If you are eager for real joy, such as you may think over and sleep upon, I am persuaded that no joy of growing wealthy, no joy of increasing knowledge, no joy of influence over your fellow-creatures, no joy of any other sort, can ever be compared with the rapture of saving a soul from death, and helping to restore our lost brethren to our great Father’s house.
Have a harvest full 2015.
