Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37-38
Sometimes it feels like nobody wants to hear about Jesus, and it’s hard to believe that the harvest really is plentiful. But maybe that’s because we just need to be willing to go to the fields that are ripe.
For 15 years, my husband and I spent one Saturday morning a month at the King County Jail. No, we weren’t doing time. We were leading a ‘church service.’
How did that happen? I was comfortably teaching Bible study to women in our church when a woman asked me, “How would you like to teach people who really need to hear the Word and don’t have a teacher?” I was challenged, and I joined her team to teach in the jail.
Did I want to do it? To be honest, I’m lazy. In 15 years, I think there were maybe two Saturdays when I felt enthusiastic about getting up and driving to downtown Seattle, going through steel doors that slammed shut behind me, and meeting with women in a room that often smelled bad and forced me to fight my germ phobias.
On the other hand, for nearly every single one of those Saturdays, I left the jail two hours later happy — even joyful — that I had been there, and that God had moved. Of course, there were exceptions, but most of the women were hungry for Jesus. They were grateful we had come. They often cried in repentance. Many came to Christ. Most allowed us to pray for them.
It was the ripest harvest field I have had the privilege of working in. And it was right in downtown Seattle.
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