The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, these are CHrist's own words. These words echoe through thousands of missionary, preachers, and sunday school teachers' mouths each year. How true it is that the harvest is ripe and ready, but so few are working toward the goal of reaching the world with the message of Christ's love for sinners.
There are however, people who are steadfast in doing the work that is mentioned here. But, unfortunately there are 2 different types of people who are doing it. There are actually two different views.
In John 21:17 Jesus asked, "Do you love Me?" to which He later responded, "Then feed My sheep."
He in a sense said, Identify yourself with My interests in other people. He wants us as believers to put ourselves in His perspective and see His view of people and their needs. He wants us to be willing to meet the needs of those who are lost and dying.
There are others though who tangle this up somewhat, and believe that He was saying, Identify Me with your interests in other people. Can you see the difference?
There are those who are seeking to see the world through God's eyes, and meet the needs of the lost with His perspective. Then, there are those who are reaching the people that they want to and putting Jesus into the equation. These are the same people who do what they want to, and rarely seek God's will, but do it with the badge of Christianity on. They think that because they are doing a "good" thing and involvee in "good" things they can write it off as doing GOd's will and work.
That's not completely what JEsus means in this passage. He wants us to identify ourselves with His interests, not the interests of ourselves. It's the Holy SPirit at work in us that allows us to accomplish God's work and GOd's will with our lives. We must detach ourselves from our own desires and attach ourselves to His desires. Then and only then will we truly be led by the Holy Spirit to accomplish big and mighty things in Christ's name.
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