Your Harvest Will Come

Harvest Season has finally come and the reapers busy themselves gathering their abundance, but the seeds you’ve planted appear not to have yielded very much. All around you, people are enjoying the fruit of their labour, but all you seem to be getting is a mere fraction, a pittance, a morsel of what others have coming to them. And you think, “Life is so unfair”, “What about me?”, “Why do I always have to be eking out a living while others are getting abundant blessings?”.

Is this you? I’ve been there…an onlooker to others abundant harvest, while all I seem to be afforded is a scraping. But I have learned that on this spiritual journey nothing is ever as it seems. What you see is never what is – there is a reality that exists far beyond our natural perspective.

Our Lord said, 

“I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work. For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.” (Isaiah 55:8-9 MSG)

When things appear to be happening a certain way, contrary to what God has promised you, remember this passage and the verse that follows,

“…the word that I speak— it will not fail to do what I plan for it; it will do everything I send it to do.”

Beloved, other people may be reaping a lucrative harvest all around you but your harvest will come. Hasn’t God promised you life abundant? Then believe God, even if you’re struggling day after day, forcing ends to meet, always counting pennies and longing to be able to afford, everything. 

Instead, you complain, and complain, to anyone in earshot – to yourself, your family, your friends, colleagues, neighbours, and of course, to God. Haven’t you noticed that your endless griping has changed nothing, you’re still in a rut, scrounging for left overs never enjoying a full course but your message today is, “STOP!!!” 

When Ruth, knowing that the poor were allowed to follow the reapers to gather up whatever grain the harvesters had left behind, decided to go into the field, you can be sure that she was not expecting to receive the bountiful harvest that she eventually did. She did not complain or gripe. She went into that field with purpose – to glean so that she and Naomi, her mother-in-law, might have something to eat. Ruth accepted the little that she got without griping and she ended up marrying the owner of the field, a very wealthy man named Boaz (see the Book of Ruth)…

What a harvest!

Stop the complaining. Stop the griping. Stop the moaning. Stop the sighing.

Start thanking. Start praising. Start rejoicing. Start believing. Start expecting. Your harvest will come.

Amen†

Your Harvest Will Come

Shelley Johnson October 17, 2017