The Harvest Is Plentiful
Okay, I admit it. I’m a softy. If you smile at me, bat your eyelashes at me and you’re an 11-year-old little girl, I just turn to jelly. I was recently visiting St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Neb., trying to keep Georgia from being overrun by pheasants, and preaching the Word. While at the church, this beautiful little girl named Vanessa Lopez, came up to me and shook my hand and said, “Tell me more about your digital audio Bibles. I think they’re cool.”
Rivers of the World (ROW) uses these handheld, digital, solar-powered Bibles as a powerful ministry tool in several countries where we serve. Each Bible is translated in the language of the country where the Bibles are distributed. All it took was Vanessa smiling and shaking my hand and the next thing I knew, I had given her one of those Bibles! Now she is sharing God’s Word with everyone and changing the world for Christ.
How about your, dear Christian? What methods are you using to share the Gospel with others? If you would like to learn more about these digital Bibles, or if you want more information on the ministry of ROW, why don’t you invite me to your church sometime and I can share some of the exciting adventures staff and volunteers have experienced in some of the most remote places in the world. As Christians, we all have an obligation to go forth and change the world for Christ.
Jesus gave His disciples, and us, instructions on how to reach a lost and dying world. After Jesus traveled through towns and villages, teaching, preaching and healing, He had compassion on the crowds of people, who seemed helpless and lost like sheep without a shepherd. Take a look at Matthew 9:37-38:
“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.’”
The fields are indeed ripe with people who are lost and seeking the truth. We must be diligent in asking the Lord to equip us to reach those people who are ready to receive His saving message of hope, love and grace. It is up to the Holy Spirit to prepare people to receive salvation, but it is every Christian’s responsibility to deliver the message that Jesus Christ saves.
