Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.
John 4:35-38
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One sows
Even as Jesus says this, the people of the Samaritan village are already coming towards him. The woman from the well had called them. The disciples thought the harvest was still four months off. Jesus makes them look around: the fields are ripe already.
Then he quotes a saying: one sows and another reaps. What you bring in, others have often prepared. And what you sow, someone else may harvest. That takes away the pride, and the pressure too.
Question for today
Who has sown in my life without my noticing?
Prayer
Lord, thank you for those who have sown in my life. Let me sow without demanding to see the harvest myself. Amen.
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