Life is precious, don’t take it for granted.
12 Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
6 Remember him – before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well. Ecclesiastes 12:1,6
Last night I received a message from an old school friend telling me that four people from our year had passed away since Christmas(none were Covid); it was a big wake up call.
I have always enjoyed the story in John 7 of Jesus talking with the Samaritan woman at the Well of Sycar. It’s interesting in the verse above that it mentioned both the ‘spring and the well’ in connection with God’s gift of Life. Jesus was seldom alone, but He was when He spoke to this lady. I believe this was the only time Jesus ministered to exclusively Samaritan people and many of them believed He was the Messiah.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of WORSHIPPERS THE FATHER SEEKS. 24 God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.’
25 The woman said, ‘I know that Messiah’ (called Christ) ‘is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’
26 Then Jesus declared, ‘I, the one speaking to you – I am he.’ John 4
God the Father is seeking worshippers to be with Him and we can all play a part in helping some to find Him.
34 ‘MY FOOD,’ said Jesus, ‘IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME AND TO FINISH HIS WORK. 35 Don’t you have a saying, “It’s still four months until harvest”? I tell you, OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT THE FIELDS! THEY ARE RIPE FOR HARVEST. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying “One sows and another reaps” is true. 38 I SENT YOU TO REAP WHAT YOU HAVE NOT WORKED FOR. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour.’
Jesus likened ministry to His daily food, something that sustained Him in His life here. He told the disciples to ‘open their eyes’, the harvest fields were ripe! There is a joy in talking to people about God, we may just need some encouragement and more confidence to begin. Finally He said that we’re part of a sequence or chain, some sow and others reap, but He has sent us to reap.
Like my former school friends, people are only here for a certain time and they need the Lord just as much as we did. We can Help some to find Him if we’ll ask Him to guide us.
May we be in the right place at the right time each day and may God give us WORDS OF LIFE to speak to those we meet.
God bless and keep you today.