Harvest

Today’s reading: Luke 9:51-62, 10:1-12

“He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭10:2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Jesus says the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Yet in the verses following we see the 72 going into towns where they were rejected. How can that be a plentiful harvest?

The bottom line is that not everyone is going to join the elect.

Yet some will.

The some are why we share the Good News about Jesus as much as we can, wherever we can. See 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.

In the world, success looks much differently than it does to Jesus.

God, send us out for the some. If we win the some and they all win some, we have just pulled in a plentiful harvest. Yet at first it didn’t seem like much and we may have been disappointed.

But you, God, are always seeing further than we can.

Send us out like the 72!