Harvests {Day 27}

Sometimes when I am raising my eyebrows at the mountain of support we still have to raise to get to the field and asking God to do His thing and call people to partner with us, I remember that He has multiple harvests to bring in. Not that the number limits Him in any way, but my perspective shifts when I remember the bigger picture.

First in my mind, there's the harvest of generous people, the Church, who must fund missions. We're always on the lookout for people who want to be part of what God is doing in missions around the world, and we pray that God would prompt people to give generously and sacrificially to missions for the sake of the Gospel around the world.

The only reason God even has to call such people to join our team is because we answered a call of a different kind: the call to serve. So while we are traveling around, sharing how dark it is in Spain and how God has called us to shine the light of Jesus there, we represent two great needs: our need for support, and the world's need for missionaries to share the Gospel. While we are praying that God would call people to partner with us financially so that we can go, God may also be using our story to call others to serve Him in missions. Indeed, a primary focus of ours should be calling people to live missionally wherever they are or may be called!

Simultaneously, God is drawing people to Himself who have turned from Him or who have never met Him, through the Good News.

I must get out of the way. God has work to do! His sole purpose is to bring glory to Himself, and He does it by simultaneously calling people to eternity with Him through Christ, calling people to eternal reward from Him by serving Him in missions, and calling people to share in the fruit of the labor done by missionaries by supporting them.

Good thing He is big enough for the job.