I want to share something really exciting (at least it was exciting to me) that the Lord showed me on Sunday. I was praying during the Lord's Supper and He brought the word "harvest" into my mind. I immediately thought about agriculture and the idea of how a farmer harvests his crops. You all know how much I love agriculture and that my childhood dream was to be a farmer. I even studied it in college, but just haven't been sure how God is ever going to use that (which is still the case today).
Then, the Lord showed me the following passages about the harvest:
35Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. 38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." -John 4:35-38
35Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." -Matthew 9:35-38
The more I thought about this, the more I realized that even if I don't ever have a farm of my own or do anything agriculturally during my lifetime, I can still be a farmer. I am here to reap and harvest souls. How cool is that?! I am Farmer Jen!
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I'm just now reading your blog, which is great! I love it. I like the "Farmer Jen". :) I've had a similiar experience. I always wanted to be a "home missionary" and had committed my life to that once as a teenager. One day, a few years back, I was sitting on my sofa and remembering that committment I had made when I was so young. The Lord pointed out that I am a "home missionary", just not in the way I thought it would be. I thought it would be some official position with a mission agency. Instead, my HOME, is my mission agency. I am a missionary to my own children, hoping to win them to Christ, missionary to our foster children, hoping to win them to Christ, and a missionary to my neighborhood through relationships and outreaches we have. It was a neat moment of clarity from the Lord and I won't forget it. His ways are higher than our ways. He knows our hearts desires better than we do and He will make everything (even our childhood dreams) glorious in its time- in HIS way!
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