Week 17, Day 1: The Harvest Is Plentiful!

Today’s Reading:  Matthew 11:1-12:50

Some thoughts from Friday’s reading…

In Matthew 9:35-36, Matthew tells us that Jesus was “moved with compassion” for the people that He encountered as He was going through the cities and villages teaching and healing the sick.  Often, Jesus’ compassion was shown through his healings, but this time, Matthew tells us that Jesus was moved with compassion because of the spiritual situation that these people were in.  They were “weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.”  The reaction to this was that He told His disciples that the harvest was plentiful, but there were few laborers.  He told the disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest would  send laborers into the harvest (Matthew 9:37-38).

I wonder what Jesus would say if He were speaking to us about opportunities today?  Certainly the harvest is plentiful today as well, perhaps even more so than in Jesus’ day!  There are hundreds of thousands of people in our area, and millions of people across the world that are in need of hearing the message of the gospel.  Unfortunately, the problem today is the same as it was in Jesus’ day–there are not enough laborers heading out into the harvest.  We should be doing our part to make sure that the Word of God is spread in our own area!  We shouldn’t just pray that God sends someone else into the harvest, but that we can do our own part as we go into the harvest.  Every single Christian should be busy about teaching the lost so that they might share the same hope of eternal salvation that we enjoy.

So, are you doing your part in the harvest?  And, are you praying for other laborers as they are going into the harvest with you?

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