Harvest Season Meditation...

this is the season of long, steamy canning days.

...and singing meek praises of gratitude!

this is the season of eager helpers...

this is the season of blooms and butterflies...

This is the season of endless culinary options and delights...

This is the harvest season!!

Imagine if, with the same urgency we have

to gather in the harvest

 (esp. when it looks like rain)

we rushed to the harvest fields 

Jesus called all believers to!

Matt.9:36-38

 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them,

 because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 

Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

We have no time to lose or pine

For harvest season does not stay

The fruit hangs heavy on the vine

Then we must toil without delay

With reverence for Judgement Day

Now is the time to gather in

For harvest season does not wait

But beckons from the laden limb

Where grace still draws ajar dawn’s gate

Then work before it is too late

We have no time to idle stand

For harvest season is so brief

Winter and death are close at hand

Its step trembles in ev’ry leaf

With verges of hunger and grief

Now is the time to labor long

Where harvest season’s bowers bow

Beneath the tolling of a gong

Who knows how long God will allow

The Time to gather in called Now

© Janet Martin

2 Cor.6:2

 I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, 

now is the day of salvation.

The Great Commission

Matt.28:18-20

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,

 “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

 19Go [c]therefore and make disciples of all the nations, 

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

 20teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you;

 and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

 [d]Amen.