While traveling this past weekend, I looked over and saw these beautiful fields of white cotton, and I was reminded of this verse. "...Lift up your eyes, and look on the field; for they are white already to harvest." John 4:35. Those white, beautiful fields did not get that way by themselves. A farmer had to plant, labor and care for those fields. He cultivated the land, planted, irrigated, and watched over them for months. When the crops are ready, he along with many other people will work and harvest the fields. The farmer does not want any part of the crop to be lost.
Jesus had one purpose on this earth, and that was to teach and save the lost. When Jesus spoke those words in John 4:35 to His disciples in Samaria he had just had the conversation with the woman at the well and had seen and heard how receptive she was to what He had to say. Jesus had taken the time to share the gospel, to plant a seed, with one woman and now so many more were coming to hear what He had to say and be saved. The fields were white and ready for harvest (people were prepared to listen to the gospel) they just needed someone to tell them.
As a Christian, we need to share the gospel wherever we go. The fields all around us are white and ready to harvest. Will you plant a seed today?
Love in Christ,
Tera
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