Scripture

“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.”

Observation

Two blind men call to Jesus, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” Jesus heals them and warns them not to tell anyone, but they spread the news about Him everywhere.

A mute demonised man is brought to Jesus, and He drives the demon out. The crowd is amazed.

Jesus goes throughout Israel preaching the Good news and healing the sick. He looks at the crowds with compassion and tells his disciples they must pray for the Lord to send out his workers into the harvest field.

Application

There are so many people who are desperate for salvation. The harvest is plentiful.

There was a time when this scripture was applied to what used to be called “the mission field.” Over recent decades we have discovered that it applies here at home also.

In Australia a little under 20% of people attend church at least once a month. This is a fairly low bar to describe what it means to be a christian. Yet about 60% identify as “christian” in the census.

The harvest is plentiful, even if we start a the easy place of sharing with the huge number of people who claim to be christian but don’t ever go to church and are not living in the Way of the Lord.

Jesus tells us to pray. We are not necessarily all called to be evangelists, but we all called to pray for the Lord to release workers into the harvest field.

Jesus also tells us to make disciples. We must share the gospel with our friends and family members. The people closest to us can judge whether the God stuff works in our lives.

We are not responsible for results, just to pray and witness.

Prayer

Father, please send your workers out into the harvest field. Show me who to talk to about you and how to do this. May the harvest be great. Amen.