The Harvest Truly Is Plentiful

And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.(Luke 10:2 ESV)

In several parables, our Lord used the analogy of a sower and his crops, including, of course, the Parable of the Sower.

What a glorious picture this is for evangelism! The sower does not try to avoid the wayside. He does not horde his seed near the stony places. He does not look upon the thorns and say, “The seed will get choked there.” He does not stop to test the soil, poke his finger in it, and say, “Here I will get a good yield.”

No, he does none of these things. He takes the seed, and casts it far and wide. He knows some will fall along the wayside. He knows that some will fall on the stony places. He knows that some will be choked by the thorns. And he knows that some will fall on good ground and yield a crop.

Does the sower know which particular seeds will fall where? He does not. But he trusts in the providence of God to say, “This seed will yield a crop.”

Let us spread the seed far and wide. Some will fall on the wayside. Some will fall on stony places. Some be choked by the thorns. But some will fall on good ground. Therefore let us go out and gather the harvest, as our Lord commands.