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April 12th -- John 4 WHITE UNTO HARVEST |
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"LIFT up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already unto harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours".Jesus uses words which recall Isaiah's language concerning the gathering of Zion's children in the day of her exaltation: "Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee" (49:18). Even then the Lord himself was realizing the joy of sowing and reaping, and gathering fruit unto life eternal. He was the sower, and he called them to be fellow labourers with him. The work is one of toil and sometimes hardship. The clouds and the rain may discourage going out into the fields; but it has to be done at the cost of present advantage and comfort. It may even entail the suffering of present loss for future gain. JOHN CARTER, The Gospel of John, pages 72-73 |
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