"And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching...
...in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest" (Matthew 9:35-38).
I thank the Lord for all He has been doing in the prisons, I thank Him also for Christians who've been faithful and willing to answer the Lord's call. For when Jesus was walking on this earth, He went everywhere touching hurting lives with the love of God. His heart was moved with compassion when Jesus saw the scattered multitudes... a multitude of people with a multitude of problems!
And in this passage the Lord said something which touched me deeply. He looked at His disciples and said that they were to pray for more workers for the harvest field. To me this was amazing because, as the Lord, He could have done it all Himself. He could have called battalions of angels to come forth, appear on the scene, and then go out into the world to carry on all these works of compassion.
Instead, He looked upon his human disciples (like He is looking upon us today) and told them to do the work of reaching out to hurting humanity, and to pray for still more workers to come along. How humbling this is to realize that God has chosen weak man with all man's sins and failings to carry out such awesome tasks.
D.B.
I thank the Lord for all He has been doing in the prisons, I thank Him also for Christians who've been faithful and willing to answer the Lord's call. For when Jesus was walking on this earth, He went everywhere touching hurting lives with the love of God. His heart was moved with compassion when Jesus saw the scattered multitudes... a multitude of people with a multitude of problems!
And in this passage the Lord said something which touched me deeply. He looked at His disciples and said that they were to pray for more workers for the harvest field. To me this was amazing because, as the Lord, He could have done it all Himself. He could have called battalions of angels to come forth, appear on the scene, and then go out into the world to carry on all these works of compassion.
Instead, He looked upon his human disciples (like He is looking upon us today) and told them to do the work of reaching out to hurting humanity, and to pray for still more workers to come along. How humbling this is to realize that God has chosen weak man with all man's sins and failings to carry out such awesome tasks.
D.B.