Harvest Assignments

John 2-4 

“’My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, “Four months more and then the harvest?” ‘I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages; even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.’”

John 4:34-36

The Samaritan woman at the well was ready to respond to the Gospel. Jesus’ spiritual eyes were open to her need and thirst for living water. When Jesus instructed his disciples to ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into the field, he was calling them into the same work and will of God that he himself was focused on. By commanding them to ‘Go,’ Jesus was declaring himself to be the ‘Lord of the harvest’. The Holy Spirit is the evangelist, but there are many jobs we are called to in the sowing, watering, and reaping process of people coming to faith in Christ. Our cooperation with the Holy Spirit requires God’s grace for our eyes and ears to be open to the unexpected conversations with ‘Nicodemus’ and the ‘Samaritan woman.’ These harvest-assignments satisfy us like no other food ever will.

What food is satisfying us?

“Lord Jesus, I am willing to receive harvest-assignments today, for your glory.”