Pray to the Lord of the Harvest

“Therefore said he unto them, The harvest is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.”  Luke 10:2

While driving to church today, we all couldn’t help but notice the signs of the lateness of the season. The leaves are turning dull, and some already falling. The final cuts of hay are in progress. Corn and tobacco fields are ready for cutting. Summer is indeed ending, and harvest time is beginning. Harvest time signals the coming of the long season of winter. This is generally a brief period. With all it’s beauty and bounty, harvest speaks to us to prepare for what is so soon to come, and to make the necessary changes for it. The light warm-weather clothing is exchanged in the storage room for the warmer, heavier outfits for the cold. It is still yet hot, but all the stores are stocked with winter wear. The beginning of harvest is now, and the final harvest will come before we know it.

We would not be prepared for winter had we not first noted the signs of the season, and this observation has prompted us to prepare likewise. In this passage, Jesus is preparing the seventy disciples for their task to go ahead of Him into the villages along His itinerant, and to prepare them for His arrival. Before He instructs them as to what to take and what to expect, He instills within them the most necessary part of their mission: the Vision. They were to go as harvesters into a ripe field, and to harvest it. He reminds them of how large a work this would be, compared to the number of they who were to do it. He told them the first work was to pray. Pray for themselves. Pray for help. Pray to the One whose harvest is was: the Lord. It was His Harvest. This hour is come for us this morning, in the spiritual realm. The hour of harvest has come upon the world for both the harvesters, and those needing to be harvested. The time has come for us to pray. To pray to be harvested. To pray for help from above to harvest the parts of our lives that need brought in to the soul’s barn. To pray for help to reach those in every corner of our life’s field to bring them in. To pray to the Lord of the Harvest.

The harvest truly is great. There are so many needing harvested. My, how much work needs to be shortly done, and so little time in which to get it done. So few it is who are willing to come and to work. It seems almost more than we can handle, doesn’t it?

Remember. He is still Lord of the Harvest. Not the devil. Not the world. Certainly not you and I. Praise God there is still a Lord. He remains over it all. Harvest is still possible. For any and everyone who is ripe, including ourselves. Lost souls, growing ever higher in their sins, are ready now for harvesting. If you are among them, be harvested now. The Fallen among the thorns and weeds can also find harvest. Though the weeds may grow high around those tomato vines, one can reach through every weed and safely pluck even the most hidden tomato, and bring it out into the basket. If you are fallen and surrounded, see the Lord’s reaching Hand, and let Him pluck you out. Every field is now ripe for the harvest of revival. True revival isn’t a bygone concept. It can be yours today, for the Harvest Lord is reaching. Soon there will come the final harvest. The fruit picked will be safely in the barn, while any left behind will remain in the worked fields, facing a season of judgment whose weather conditions are too horrible to bear or endure. And there will be no return of Spring for last year’s crops.

How ripe is your heart, your life, for harvesting? It can be done. Pray to the Lord of your Harvest. You can, He says you can. You have a prayer, and have it now. You have a place in His Barn, and belong there, not left alone in the empty, dying field. You were never meant to be left behind to be swallowed up, along with the devil and this old world, in the eternal winter of retribution.

Know this. It is His Harvest, and He intends for you to be His. This is why Jesus so sincerely calls for you to pray.
Use your prayer now.