Harvesting

Pumpkin Land in Orange City, IA

It's a farmer's word....a farmer's life.  From the time seeds are planted, the farmer prepares for harvest.  He cares for his fields as best he can and prays that the Lord provides the weather necessary for an abundant crop.  It is out of his control as far as the sun, rain, and the elements.  He is at God's mercy.
We all are, aren't we?  We are at God's mercy in our everyday tasks.  If you believe in a sovereign God - as I do - then you know that He sees it all and nothing slips by without His knowing it.  Otherwise, He would not be God. He is holy and He is good.
Think about the farmer for a moment.  He toils like little of us do.  His job is enormous.  Try buying groceries without him.  We are so dependent on this man we most likely will never know.  We cannot live without his work...unless we grow our own.  (We did that for a few years..it is a tedious task that cannot be neglected....so we quit.)  We love farmers who work hard for us.
How 'taken for granted' he must feel.  Travelling up through Kansas and Iowa, there are farms galore.  What is really amazing to me is how neat they are....blocked off in acres of different crops, and with lines so straight.  Okay, I know they have machines that do those things, but those machines do not run by themselves.  Kudos to the pioneer farmer who had nothing but a mule and a sack full of seeds.  What a rough, unappreciated, and often underpaid job he has chosen.
Still he waits - on our behalf - for his crop to produce and be ready to harvest...and we benefit.  I know we pay a pretty penny sometimes and we have the option of ignoring the higher priced items, but we would have no choice at all without the farmer.
There is another type of harvesting as well...a spiritual harvest.  We can be a part of that.  We share the gospel...the good news that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him will never perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16  Then God does the harvesting.  We plant the seeds of truth and God does the rest.  It isn't up to us to save souls.  That is His job and He does it like we never could.  So let's be farmers...planting seeds of truth found in God's word...and see what our Father, the Farmer, the Great Harvester will do.

Luke 10:2   And he said to them, "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."