THE WORLD IS RIPE FOR THE HARVEST!

READ JOHN 4:31-38

31-33) The disciples try to bring the events that they had witnessed back to earth. They wanted to bring the conversation back to a the comfort zone of phuscial food, but Jesus uses the opportunity to teach them a lesson about the harvest of spiritual food.
34) What is the food Jesus talks about?
First of all OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER
Second is the RESPONSIBILITY TO FINISH THE TASK
35-38) There are three very important words that we will take the time to look at:
1) HARVEST: In earthly terms the harvest comes but once a year and at a certain time of the year, but the spiritual harvest is year round, 24/7! (See 2 Timothy 4:1-5)
2) REAPING: When you reap you are 1) receiving wages, and 2) gathering fruit for life eternal. Jesus is saying that this woman, in winning over a far greater number of the Samaritans to the kingdom of God, will enjoy the fruits of the work, so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
3) SOWING: Jesus implanted into the woman's heart a seed and she in turn has gone out and sowed seeds into the hearts of the people of her village. Jesus had sent the disciples into the village with spiritual food to give, but what they did was buy physical food that would perish. The woman at the well went into the village with the same spiritual food and came back reaping the harvest and brought that harvest to Jesus, so that the One who sowed and the one who reaped would rejoice together.
FATHER, WE ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON A NEW YEAR AND THE COMMUNITY WE LIVE IN IS RIPE FOR THE HARVEST. LET US BE LIKE THE WOMEN AT THE WELL, OBEDIENT AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TASK THAT WE ARE GIVEN TO DO. AMEN