Today's Passage - John 4:36-38

River of Life Christian Church ︳www.rolcc.net/english John 4: 36-38   Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus 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 you have reaped the benefits of their labor."                  Here Jesus says "one sows and another reaps, the sower and the reaper may be glad together when harvest comes." Our own selfish thinking would put the sower as the unfortunate one because he reaps not while the reaper quite often reaps without sowing. The truth is we have unity in God's kingdom inheriting the mission; besides receiving the same mission, we also receive the same power from the Holy Spirit. Therefore we do not distinguish sowing and reaping altogether, sometimes other people sow and we reap, sometimes we sow and others follow to reap. Let our eyes not see our own selves, rather seeing we have unity in God's kingdom and we can rejoice!                  Reinhard Bonnke is a German evangelist that God greatly uses in Africa where millions attend his evangelistic meetings. Once he led many people to Christ while holding a large evangelistic meeting in a small village. Later that night he went back to his tent and opened a church history book and found out that David Livingston had preached there. Livingston wrote in his journal: "I preached the Gospel for such a long time here and no one would accept the Lord, yet the Lord tells me in spirit that the spirit of God will work here one hundred years later this day and there will be great harvest!"                  It is exactly a hundred years later when Reinhard Bonnke read that journal! Livingston sowed there a hundred years ago and now he reaps here after one hundred years; He is walking down the shed blood of that missionary! We have real unity in God's kingdom! Together we strive to preach the gospel, sometimes we sow and sometimes we reap, and together we rejoice in the Lord.           Pray with Pastor Tong           Thank you dear Lord! This is the time of harvest; let us work diligently because your kingdom will come soon! May your Spirit come and make us into your vessels. We pray in the victorious name of Jesus, Amen!