Last night as I was reading my Bible, I was imagining the way God will work in Utah and other areas to suprise us in the way that He brings people to Him. In an earlier post called what if, I blogged on keeping open in our minds how God can do things we can’t even fathom.

Upon these reflections, I started thinking on our neighbors apricot tree heavely laden with fruit, just waiting to be plucked. In the beginning, there is the firstfruits, that ripen before the rest of the tree as a whole, then the rest of the fruit just continues to grow and ripen, causing the branches of the tree to bend under the weight. So, God wants our firstfruits, and He wants us to pray for Him to send out more workers to harvest. Our harvest is plentiful but those to do the work are few, so He is calling us into prayer to place upon Him our hearts for Him to send more workers to help us!

Like my neighbors apricot tree, there are so many around us that are ripe and nearly ready for someone to show them how to give their life to Christ. God will not only use us if we are responsive to His voice, but, if we act as intercessors, He will send more into the harvest. When I don’t know how to witness completely, especially to people who I am closest to, like Mike, God has given me the instruction to pray for more workers into the field. John 4:35-38 says, Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” We have to do God’s will to help bring the message of salvation to those who are weighing down the branches with their fruit, so that they too will join us in His Kingdom.

I need to remember that He wants a continual harvest, and we should not only pray for Him to send in more workers to the harvest, but we should also pray to enlarge the harvest, and for Him to show us those He wants us to cultivate. Fruits vary in size, shape, color, and ripeness, and they are all delicious, but susseptable to pests from hungry worms, birds, or deer. Even when the fruit reveals it was exposed to a little worm, it is still not a waste. The fruit can still be harvested and the bad spot cut off.

Everyone is waiting to come into season and the harvest is and will be plentiful.