The Vineyard Awaits.

“Jesus went from town to town teaching, proclaiming the gospel, and healing every disease and affliction” Matthew 9:35 in the following verse 36 Jesus sees the crowed and is filled with compassion for the crowd. “Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” So many people and children are waiting to be taught the word but, not everyone is willing to teach the word. Jesus says this upon seeing the large crowd in need.

We often have so many excuses as to why we can’t work in the vineyard of the Lord. Yet on most Sundays we sing to the top of our lungs about being “a worker for the Lord, in the vineyard of the Lord.”

“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” As a worker in the in the harvest or the vineyard, we need to understand that we ought to look to Jesus as he is the benchmark, the example of how a worker ought to be. If you look in the book of Philippians in the second chapter; Paul summaries beautifully what Christ did by coming down from heaven to earth. Paul says; verse 6 “Christ humbled himself, emptied himself by taking a form of a servant”, and “became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross,” verse 9.

I might be wrong but, I think being a worker or servant is a mind-set thing look at what Paul says in the book of Romans 12:1-2 God in this passage instructs us to present our bodies to him as a living sacrifice (holy & acceptable) this is our spiritual act of worship to God. God reminds us not to be conformed to the world but, to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. We ought to follow a certain way of life, and constantly renew our minds-in the word.

As servants or workers like Christ we have been set free from the darkness of this world, and we continue to be a servant or a worker to ALL, in order that we might win them over 1 Corinthians 9:19. Everything we do, we do to the glory of God 1 Corinthians 10:31. It is extremely important that we convey Christ and that we glorify God in all we do.

How then are we to win more workers over in the vineyard of the Lord? We ought to live a life worthy of Christ’s glory-God’s glory, and pray earnestly to send out labourers into his harvest Matthew 9:38. The harvest is wide and open, where and how will you use your gifts or talents this year? Will we continue to sing “I want to be worker” in vain? The vineyard awaits for you and me, if you are already busy, pray for others to join you and be busy together. The vineyard awaits, what will you do?