Your Spiritual Harvest

Your Spiritual Harvest

John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

                I grew up in Kansas where I have observed the wonder and beauty of many wheat fields. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a well prepared wheat field that has just been planted.  To a person that is not a farmer, it probably just looks like so much dirt.  However, I know what is about to happen.  In a few weeks that field will be a beautiful carpet of green.  All through the cold winter when most fields remain brown the wheat fields remain green.  In the spring the wheat fields become a verdant mass of green as they grow.  Later in the early summer it begins to turn to a wonderful golden color as it gently waves in the summer Kansas breezes.   Seemingly overnight each wheat stock bows its head with the weight of its precious content.

                Now it is harvest time!  I used to love to watch the golden wheat gush into the hopper of the combine as it moved slowly up and down the wheat field.  When the hopper was heaped up with wheat, dad would pull the truck up beside the combine and begin to auger the wheat into the truck as my brother and I would let the wheat pour over our bare feet.

                I know that God is watching your spiritual musical harvest and, if He has feet, He is letting the results of that harvest pour over them, as He looks upon the spiritual harvest that you have been responsible for, pour into His great harvest storehouse.  Zephaniah 3:17 reminds us as His servants, “The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”