The Sovereign Love of God

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T he S eason after P entecost

deep sense of the shortage of workers, should produce in us an overwhelming burden to share the Gospel with the lost, and to hazard our lives to go to the ends of the earth in order to tell those who have not heard the good news of salvation. This is a season of preparation, of mobilization, of engage­ ment, and of courage. If we truly come to see and understand what the apostles saw and understood, then we, like them, will be moved to share and go even as they did. Even though the workers are few, the harvest is great, and the time is short, we can be hopeful during this season of the Church Year. Jesus asserts that the harvest is his own, he who is called the “Lord of the harvest.” It is neither ours to possess nor ours alone to superintend. Neither the enemy nor God’s workers are possessors of the harvest. It belongs to Christ alone. The breadth of the harvest and its Gospel is mind boggling, indeed: It is universal, including the “entire creation” (Mark 16.15-16). It involves every person, with offers to be made to every man, woman, boy, and girl who does not know the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior (Col. 1.27-29). It crosses all barriers of race and clan, the Gospel itself being a dynamic power to be proclaimed to every person and which can save all who hear and believe, not only the Jew but also the Gentile (Rom. 1.16-17). The Gospel is to be proclaimed to every single person beginning from Jerusalem, to Judea, in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth (Acts 1.8), covering all nations, kindreds, peoples, and tongues who will one day worship Christ (Rev. 7.9-11). Every one of Adam’s condemned race, all who are currently under the power of the prince of the air, can hear, believe, and be delivered by faith in the Gospel (Rom. 5; Eph. 2.2; Col. 1.13; 3.5-7). Pray to the Lord of the Harvest to Send Forth Laborers into His Harvest