(November 22, 2009)

We know that harvest time is a time of great celebration. The seed was sown months and months ago and now we get to see the great results of that. However, spiritually, it's possible to reap a harvest of souls immediately after the seed is sown. If you have sown and sown and sown, don't get discouraged. You may not see that harvest, but someone else will and God will know that you are good.

People are going to be very responsive to the seed that you sow in the coming months and years. Jesus planted one seed in a Samaritan woman in John 4. He shares with her about her life and an entire city was reached. It takes more workers to reap he harvest than to sow the harvest. It takes many reapers to bring the harvest in. Many have witnessed and sown those seeds, but it takes an entire congregation to reap the harvest of souls.

There is never an insignificant seed. The simplest seed may bring an entire city to Christ. Your one seed may be the one! Many of us spend our Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights sharpening our hoes and greasing our tractors, but during the rest of the week we never use our equipment to either sow seed or reap a harvest.

- Jon Bruney
(credit to Sparkling Gems from the Greek by Rick Renner