An Unreaped Harvest

“Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful
but the workers are few’” (Matt. 9:37).

“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. Thus the saying, ‘One
sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked
for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their
labor” (John 4:35-38).

I believe these statements of Jesus are still true today:

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The harvest is great.

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There are few reapers.

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The harvest is ripe.

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We are to pray that God would send forth reapers
to the harvest.

Unless we pray, as God commanded, we are facing a great
tragedy, an unreaped ripe harvest. There are more people everywhere who
want into the kingdom than there are Christians who want them in.

During the last month,* three people received Christ who had
close Christian friends. One was sent to me, one was brought to me, and one
just hung around me. All three were asking to be saved. They were in the
kingdom in a few minutes. But they did not have to come to me. Anyone that ripe
does not need an evangelist to get him into the kingdom. Any Christian could
bring him in. Please pray to the Lord of the harvest that He would send
laborers into the harvest.

*Written August 2002.

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