I Choose Today to be Harvest Hands
In our discovery of what Jesus did with His hands and feet, I ran across these verses in the Message Bible, saying ”Then Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When He looked out over the crowds, His heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd. “What a huge harvest!” He said to His disciples. “How few workers! On your knees and pray for harvest hands!”“ Matthew 9:35-38 Jesus saw the need. He saw people were wandering aimlessly, unprotected, and in need of hope, healing, direction, and love. His response to these wanderers: compassion. He saw the need for “harvest hands,” those who can work the harvest. His instruction was/is to pray to the God of the harvest to send more hands to the ones needing harvested. When I was growing up, I lived in a part of California that is designated as the breadbasket of the world. What grows there is distributed all over the world. I saw firsthand how the harvesters would go into the fields to pick the fresh