The Migrant Workers …The
Chronicle
Jesus
saith unto them, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to
finish his work. Say not, there are yet four months, and then comes harvest?
Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they
are white already to harvest. And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers
fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may
rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, one sows, and another
reaps. I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor: other men
labored, and you are entered into their labors.” John 4:34-38 KJV
Migrant
workers (sojourners) are forever on the move. Their place of residence is
not their home ...they are just passing through. They live in a place for
the harvest season ...packed, ready, and always aware of the next place of
harvest. They are not picky (pardon the pun) about who they labor or live
along side. Their vision and focus is always “harvest”. They don’t wait for
the next harvest to come to them ...awake or asleep they see harvest. They
do not bicker about methods ...if there is a better way to gather the
harvest they are open to it. It would be absurd for laborers ...in a field
“ripe to harvest” ...about to be damaged by a storm ...to insist on using a
sickle, when a threshing machine is available. Can they justify a “lost
harvest” by saying”, “my father used a sickle so will I”? Think about how
long it took Jesus and the disciples to evangelize because of the limited
methods of their time. The tools that we have at our disposal would boggle
the minds of the Disciples of Old. We cannot sit in the “church” when the
harvest is in the field. We cannot continue to let the enemy dominate all
the different Medias that God has provided to “Go into the World”.
As “migrant workers” –“laborers in the field”
...our eyes must be on the harvest. Our resolve must be to harvest the crop
as quickly as possible while it is still day ...for tomorrow may bring a
storm and the “harvest may be lost” forever. We are not to say, “it is four
months, and then comes harvest”... for there are those who “in four months”
will have slipped away into their eternity and lost forever. Saints have
prayed for centuries, “Send forth laborers into to the field”. He is sending
us to reap where we did not plant and there is great reward for the labor
done unto the master. It is not too late for you to go. Do you not know that
He pays the eleventh hour workers the same wages as those who have toiled
all day?
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