John 4: 27-36 The Harvest is Plenty

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”  So the woman left her water pot, and went into the city and said to the men,  “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”  They went out of the city, and were coming to Him. Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”  But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”  So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?”  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.  Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.  For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

This is the second part to what we started yesterday.  Jesus had intentionally sent His disciples into town for food, knowing the discrimination to the Samaritans’ with whom He was going to see.  He had a meaningful conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well and she receives him as the Promised One.  Now the disciples return saying “Master come and eat.”  And He replies His food is doing the will and the work of the Father.  He pronounces to them that the number needing salvation is many.  He refers to them as the harvest and declares that the harvest is many but the workers are few.

Daily Prayer:  Lord Jesus, let it be my focus to proclaim the gospel.  Let all people hear about Your saving grace so that the do not perish in their sins.  In Your holy name I pray Amen.