What Part of the Harvest is Your Responsibility?

Alejandra (lives in the work camp) and Stacy - Culiacan, Mexico


                                      

Before a crop is harvested, a great deal of work must happen.  Someone needs to prepare the soil.  Another needs to plant the seed.  Then along comes the one who will add the water.  Soon, fertilizer needs to be added to encourage growth.  And when the time is right, someone gets to harvest the fruit.  An individual's journey toward salvation is very similar.  We, as believers, have a part to play in the harvest of souls.  What part are you playing in the lives of people you encounter throughout your day?  Are you preparing the soil with kind words, planting the seed of what the Lord has done in your life, fertilizing with words of encouragement or picking the fruit when the time's right?

 

This is Alejandra.  I, along with two others, were sharing the Gospel with her at the door of her room in the work camp.  She spoke Spanish so we returned to the van to get her a CD of the Gospel in Spanish.  Upon returning to her room she handed me a huge bag of cucumbers (the crop she had been picking).  She told me that she remembered me from last year when I happened to be the one to come to her door.  She asked if I remembered that last year she gave me a bag of tomatoes (which is not a common occurrence), which I did.  We were there that day watering the seeds that had been planted the previous year.  It was a good reminder to me that the Lord has given us all a part in the harvest.  It isn't always about being the one to harvest the fruit; the Lord is asking us to be responsible for the part of the harvest he puts before us!