“He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely, but he
who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.” Proverbs 10:5
“Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the
fields, that they are white for harvest.” John 4:35b.
When Jesus saw the woman at the
well in John 4, he saw his Father’s harvest fields. When Jesus remained in the
city at the request of its citizens, he remained to work in his Father’s
harvest fields.
There is the son who gathers, and
then there is the son who sleeps. The son who gathers is in the fields looking
for ripe produce, his eye is on the fields, he is attentive to his
surroundings. This son’s mind and heart and soul are alive to the people around
him; they matter to him because they matter to the Father.
The son who sleeps cares not for
those around him; they are there simply to serve, to function, to perform. They
might as well be machines. This son has a mind, a heart, a soul – asleep,
insensitive to the need, the pain, the death, the lostness around him.
Can we hear the cry around us? “Harvest
is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved” (Jeremiah 8:20).
Shall this be the cry in the
harvest field in which the Father has placed us?
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