More Important

(#852, Imperial, 1960)

Read John 4:31-38.

ƒ      My meat is to do His will, vs.31-34.

Did you ever get to the place that you were so deeply satisfied with what you were doing that it made little difference whether you ate or not?  Or have you become so taken up with a talk that meal time slipped by without you noticing it?  Talking to the woman at the well was more satisfying to Christ than eating.  That's because Christ's "meat" was to do God's will.  The will of God is to finish His work.  The will of God is most important, and the doing of it is deeply satisfying.

ƒ      The need of vision, v35.

There is a great need for vision in the matter of soul-winning. 

w    We must see lost souls around us.  Our vision is so often filled with "things" that we are blind to the needs of those around us.  This blindness is a characteristic of the Church in the last days (Rev. 3:17).

w    We must see the fields.  Acts 1:8 defines the fields as Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost part of the world.  In other words we must look immediately around us as well as to the whole world and everywhere in between.

w    We must see that the fields are already white.  There is no time for procrastination, laziness, slothfulness.  The harvest is ripe.

ƒ      The reward of the harvest, v36.

The Sower and the reaper both have a part in the rejoicing.  We are responsible for these 2 things: sowing and reaping.  The result is with God.  And the reward for the work done will be eternal, both for the worker and for the one saved.

 At which end of the harvest are you?  Are you a soul to be harvested?  Or are you God's harvester?