Lord of the Harvest
"The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." (Luke 10:2 NIV)
We're only a few days into a side trip off our main names of God road, and I've already picked up a couple souvenirs. I hope you have, too. (And I promise to mostly quit with the traveling references for today.)
One souvenir is that all the pairs of seasons God breathed into Ecclesiastes 3 feed and finish each other: what one begins, its complement ends; where one leaves off, the other picks up.
The other souvenir is the comforting observation that no matter what might be going on in our daily lives, we can find a representative for it in the seasons God purposes. Birth and death, planting and harvesting, war and peace, and all the rest bring immediate literal interpretations to mind, but they also suggest broader applications so that we can, for instance, relate to a time to be born even though we are clearly not being born as babies right now.
On the way of faith, planting and harvesting and more planting and more harvesting lead us along toward our heavenly home.
We plant humility...and harvest confession.
We plant confession...and harvest repentance.
We plant repentance...and harvest forgiveness.
We plant forgiveness...and harvest relationship.
We plant relationship...and harvest love.
We plant love...and harvest joy.
We plant joy...and harvest strength.
We plant strength...and harvest endurance.
We plant endurance...and harvest hope.
And we plant hope...and harvest eternal life in the fields of the Lord of the harvest.
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