One is that the harvest is plentiful (Matthew 9:37).
God gives us, as a species, all we need to survive.
The problem?
The laborers are few. (ibid).
We don't want to work to help each other.
In Matthew 13, Jesus tells the story of the weeds sown among the wheat. The workers, angry at the enemy who sewed the weeds among the master's wheat, want to pull them up.
The master tells them to let them both grow up together until harvest. (Matthew 13:30).
Here, the harvester is God. He allows the rain to fall on the good and bad alike.
It is not for us to control or to judge. It is up to us to labor to bring good to all His children while we are on earth.
Beautiful picture! I could stare at it all day and ponder. Harvest is a very good theme for self-reflection. I see it as a time to take inventory and revisit my growth from the last year. It is also a time to prepare for the long, cold winter. This picture reminds me of the warmth that is still there. And how we have everything we need provided for us by God.
ReplyDeleteThis time of year really pushes us towards the contemplative doesn't it?
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