Harvesting

Okay so I have always read into this verse in Matthew. I have always been intrigued by it and interested in it as Evangelism has always been a leading cause for my struggles in life. But just this week in my preparations for Sunday's sermon I got it. I finally got it, after reading and studying about Phillip going to share the Gospel with the Ethiopian Eunuch. Seeing how he was led by the Spirit to go on a road toward a new endeavor but came upon a man sitting by the side of the road. He found that the Ethiopian was already reading Isaiah and he was reading a passage that referred to the trial and death of JEsus Christ. God had sent the Spirit way ahead of Phillip to prepare the Ethiopian for what was coming. How cool is that? Very! But here's the verse I want to share with you this morning:
Matthew 9:38 Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. I finally got it after 32 years and after being intrigued by this verse since my teen years it occurred to me the wording here.(YEs I realize most people probably get it the first time).
Now it is not my intent to insult anyone in these coming statements but to prove my point. I have friends that live in Elkton, their house is right in the middle of a huge potato farm. I've seen the guys out there harvesting, now here's the thing. Someone has to prepare the land, someone who knows a lot about the crop to be grown. Someone has to come along and plant the seeds, then it is irrigated and watered regularly. But here's the deal, at harvest time anyone can harvest them. Anyone(Even me) can go out and pick potatos and stick them in a bin. The harvest is the final piece of the puzzle. The land was prepared(God sending the Holy Spirit), the seeds were planted(this is our first role) and then the harvesting is done(that is a mixture of GOd and the Holy Spirit and we are the minor role in this capacity).
It got it, harvesting takes place after all the real work was done, and God is telling us to pray for workers, laborers. That is a role that anyone can fill in this capacity.
Here's a little story I share with the domestic violence trainings I do.
This is a story of 4 people who were a part of a task force to get a job done. Those 4 people's names were Everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody. There was a very important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that somebody would do it. Anybody could have one it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
I believe that sums up the job of the body of Christ, God is looking for laborers and nothing more. There's not one of us who can't do that!
Thanks for reading and have an awesome weekend!