Harvest
1. We have
great need of labourers; may the Lord of the harvest raise them up, for indeed
the harvest is great, and the fields whiten for it. It ought to be a subject of
our prayers, that God raise up real labourers, such as He loves and can use.[i]
1. The
Lord speaks thus of the present economy, "So is the kingdom of God, as if
a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and
day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth
bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the
full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he
putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." Outwardly, all goes
on without the intervention of Christ, from the sowing of the seed until the
harvest. Well, the time which elapses from the seed-sowing till the harvest is
what is generally called the present dispensation.[ii]