MORNING MEDITATION

“Lord, Send More Workers Into Your Harvest Field!”

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“Lord, Send More Workers Into Your Harvest Field!”
Everywhere around us are harrassed and helpless crowds who are like sheep without a shepherd. We must show them the compassion of Jesus. We can only do so when we find out why they are helpless and who are those harrassing them? The crowds are always at the mercy of a selected few; be they in the secular or sacred realms! The harrassed are the voiceless of society and they are helpless because nobody speaks for them. Nobody speaks for them because nobody cares. The big fish are busy swallowing the small ones. The crowds are intimidated into silence so that they can be harrassed the more.
Jesus gives us authority to go and free them, driving out the evil spirits of wickedness and the careless attitudes of “the powers that be!”
The domination system can only come to an end when we speak truth to power! To liberate the oppressed we must first of all liberate the oppressors! The evil spirits are not in the harrassed and helpless crowds, the evil spirits are in the oppressors and tormentors. They need to be cured of that canker that has eaten into them and has become chronic.
Secondly, Jesus tells us to “ask(pray) the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Not everybody should go to the harvest field, but everybody has a responsibility to pray that God should increase the number of workers in his harvest field. How often do you pray that many should become workers in the harvest fields and for the strengthening of those who are already in the field?
Rather we often take delight to be the ones to castigate them and to happily spread any rumour we hear against them? Pray for them and pray for more to join them.
Lastly it appears an embarrassment to us that Jesus asked the twelve not to go among the Gentiles or to enter any Samaritan town, but to “go rather to the lost sheep of Israel!”(Mt.9:35-10:7).
Why would Jesus who is the Christ for all humanity be so openly discriminatory? The simple answer is that “the world we long to transform is represented in our backyards.” We must begin from close circles before expanding our circles. We cannot as individuals change the world, but we can change those closer to us. And if in our various small circles we have the same message of transformation, then like little drops of water we can make an ocean of transformed people in the world.
Summarily, let us show compassion for the harrassed and the helpless. Let us pray for more ministers of the word and for the strengthening of those already in the field. Lastly let us change the world by changing ourselves and those around us. It is true that a prophet is not accepted by his own people, but we must do what we have to do and leave the rest to the Holy Spirit.
Prayer of the week: I pray you Lord of the Harvest to send workers into your harvest field and to strengthen those who are already there. Amen!
Welcome back to a new working week. Have a blessed day and week! Peace be with you!

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