Off The Elevator and Into the Harvest Fields

““My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.”

John 4:34-36

 

                           

 

 

What if your profession was in sales but you spent your days

traveling up and down in an elevator all by yourself.

How effective would you be?

Not very!

God has good plans and purposes for your life but those purposes will never be fulfilled in isolation.

Yes, yes, I know – Jesus did indeed spend time alone with the Father.

A great deal of time as a matter of fact.

But His time with the Father was not meant as an alternative to ministering to others.

Certainly, part of that time was a preparation for His day.

What was poured into Him in those moments of fellowship with His Father (often very early in the day) was poured out on those to whom He ministered during the day.  

So it should be with us.

“For God so loved the world that He gave…”

Yes, He gave His Son who paid the price for our sin that we might be reconciled to the Father.

Today, you and I are Christ’s body in the earth.

In a sense you might say that, through you and I, God continues to give His Son.

Have you been His Ambassador today?

Have you been His hands and feet to the world?

Have you been salt and light?

I hope this doesn’t offend you but to fully appreciate that we are to be His image in the earth why don’t you try this –

For God so loved the world that He gave (insert your name) today

to a hurting and confused person.

Let His love be lavished on someone today because you took the time to be in the Lord’s presence for the express purpose of being filled in order to be poured out.  

Step off the elevator into the fields ripe for harvest.