Be Wise!
Dr RJ Sing · 1 min read
“The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.”
‘He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son’ (Proverbs 10:5) Harvest is a time of high motivation, a time when all the efforts of an entire year come to fruition.
How can someone sleep if the grain is standing ready and a storm that can ruin it is coming? If people sleep, they are wasting the blood, sweat and tears of all the laborers before them. They are turning their backs on the financial rewards the harvest will bring at the market.
They are wasting their day of opportunity. Jesus spoke of some who received the Word but were distracted by a life of ease and pleasure before the harvest came. He reminded us that some would be ‘wise sons’ (or daughters) who would gather thirtyfold, sixtyfold and a hundredfold in the day of harvest. (Mark 4:20)
We are now in the period of the greatest spiritual harvest the World has ever seen. An estimated 178 000 new Christians are being saved every day. Lay aside your sleep and wake up; your summer of harvest may never happen again this side of eternity.
From the October 2011 issue, themed “God is in Control of My Life”.
