Lift up your eyes and look at the fields
"Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together." - John 4:35-36 The Lord Jesus tells his disciples not to consider the gospel harvest a far-off and future event, but to lift up their eyes and see that the harvest is here and that the Lord is, at this very moment, bringing people into his kingdom. Are you involved in this work? One of the most sobering realizations that a believer can make is to discover that he has busied himself with involvement in many activities and yet, is not doing what the Lord Jesus them to do. The Lord has commissioned every believer to make disciples of all the nations and to teach them to observe all that he has commanded us [Matthew 28:18-20]. This is the primary work to which we have