As we drove up a mountain, in a foreign country, on what might be called a road, we would, from time to time, pass by an area in which there would be a shack or two where people were trying to eke out a living. It made one wonder, “how did they do that?”
I have lived in an area, in times past, where we had no running water, no indoor plumbing, and no electricity in a small wooden framed house. But there were other such homes within walking distance where there were opportunities for fellowship and interactions with others. Not so on this particular mountain and other mountains on which I have been.
I began to comprehend the scripture where Jesus states, “The harvest is plenteous,but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest.” -Matt: 9:37b-38.
I also lived where we had crops that would, at the right time, be ripe for harvest, but they were crops planted on level ground. But God’s harvest includes mountains also and His harvest includes the entire earth, wherever man is seeking to make a living. The people who lived in those shacks we drove by on that mountain need to be harvested also. The only people who can do that harvesting are you and me. And these people are always ripe for harvest.
One mountain town where I have been, in another country, has about 300 small mountain villages in the area. I doubt if very many of these villages have ever heard any of the word of God. This is just one such example. It can be multiplied by thousands of other examples. The task of harvest is greater than I can envision.
In other countries men and women are being trained, as best as possible, in God’s Word and are committed to going, mostly on foot, up into the mountains to go to villages where there is no Gospel of Jesus Christ being presented.
The same is being done in mountain-less nations. The harvest is everywhere. But the laborers are so few.
As one non-Christian author wrote, “We Americans Are Amusing Ourselves To Death!”
What are we “Band of Brethren” going to do about the Harvest?
