John 9:4

HARVEST TIME!

It's time to gather the crops!  Even so-called secular people are talking more and more about "the end of the world" and religious terms such as the "Rapture."  And, the Word of God is becoming every day conversation, when issues like "one-world currency" and the fact that many nations are now  "leaderless," are the topics of the 6:00 o'clock News.  It sounds a whole lot like we have approached God's favorite season, "Harvest Time."

"I must work the works of him that sent me,

while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work."

(John 9:4)

The hope of the world lies in the hands, feet and voices of God's bride.  We must bid them to the wedding, Jesus said in Matthew 22:9, "Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage."  And, Oh what a wedding!  The bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ, anxiously anticipates receiving His bride, His Church, unto Himself.  There are lonely, desperate, lost people on every street corner, under bridges, in mansions, in Congress, stretching across foreign lands, in every Nation, and in the deepest jungle tribal areas, who know not that they "will be" among the bride of Christ.  No one is too rich, too poor, or too evil that the love of Jesus Christ does not long to touch.  God knows the hearts, and those that we may think are too far gone, may be the next Paul of this generation.  Who can fathom the infinite, far-reaching, depth of love ruminating in the aching, longing heart of Almighty God?  

                                            

 "And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom

when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto {them},

and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly."

(Acts 18:26)

In "harvest time," the truth is unlocked in people who are ready to listen; they have come to the end of their roads; they want the truth.  There comes a time in the honest-hearted person's life when they want to be sure that they are ready for heaven.  When the harvest is "white on the fields," it speaks to me of purity and the actual meaning of the word is "free of contaminants."  After repentance, we want the whole truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth!  Jesus Christ said, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No man cometh unto the Father (the eternal Spirit) but by me." (John 14:6)  Come humbly, every Nation, every soul, every precious created life and hear:  The Lord Jesus Christ is the Savior and eternal God for all mankind!

                                           "So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the
                                              people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding
                                                                            hall was filled with guests."
                                                                                   (Matthew 22:10)

The marriage supper of the Lamb will be the grandest, most elaborate banquet ever presented, with people from all Nations, all kindreds, and tongues, who came together in One Lord, One Faith, and One Baptism (Ephesians 4:5; Acts 2, Acts 10 and Acts 19) to worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords; and now they dine in heaven's portals as the Bride of Christ the Lord!  It was all because, one by one, they rose to "glean" one more time, and now the dining table in paradise seats God's favorite season, the "Harvest." 
   

                                                                                               By Sheryl Fowler

                              (Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.

                           PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)