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The Workers Are Few…Why?

Writer's picture: Brian DoyleBrian Doyle

This morning, I was thinking about how few people participate in Kingdom works and events. Seriously. We have prayer nights, few show up. We have studies and classes meant to help deepen one’s faith, few show. We have opportunities to grow through conferences and events, and few show. We have opportunities to serve in the Kingdom, few show up. Sunday Mornings draw a crowd, but where is everyone the rest of the week? Then I read something in my own study that troubled me:

 

When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”-Luke 14:15-24

 

Consider this: Jesus was dining with Pharisees and told the religious rulers that they were too concerned with their own affairs to participate in His Kingdom! And I think this still reigns true. Many of us (I’m as guilty as anyone) want the appearance of religion, but the truth of the matter is we want just enough to get a foot in the door. We all have homes to tend to, kids to raise, jobs to work, and more. Loved ones, NOW is the time for Kingdom mindedness. NOW is the time to go to the highways and byways. Now is the time to seek those who are lost. Time is short! All too often, I see people regret lost time when it’s too late: the kids are gone, the opportunities to share at work are lost, or weeping with regret over a casket. Now is the time God has given you: get to work!

 

Jesus lived as one of us, fully human, died because of and to pay for our sin, rose again conquering death to give you life, now AND in the time to come. Are you living the life He bought and paid for now? There’s work to do. There are still lost seeking a way home, and Jesus is The Way. Let’s get to those fields, and help in the harvest.

 

Luke 10:1-23

 

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 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. Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road. Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

 

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

 

“The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

 

The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

 

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

 

Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”




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