What was blatantly obvious was that these fields were in various states of harvesting. The maize was nearing maturity, so was maybe a week or two away from harvest. The sunflowers were tall but all had brown heads instead of bright shining yellow ones; their heads were now exhibited the guilty droop, awaiting the harvester’s sickle as a condemned man awaits the executioner’s axe. Some fields of sunflowers had already fallen to the harvester. The harvesters had been to the wheat fields and nothing remained but for the gleanings only the crows could find.
The forests were of pine but growing straight and tall rushing, as only pine trees can, to the light. They seemed tall enough for the fellers axe but they all looked incredibly thin. Tall and slim as lanky teenagers, but more than that, elongated like sufferers of Marfan’s Syndrome: bones stretched rack-like to breaking point and organs weakened internally by poor connective tissue.
The fields are a reminder of the words Jesus used…”the harvest is plentiful”
JN 4:34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, `Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying `One sows and another reaps' is true. 38 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."
(or Mat9:37, Rev14:15, Joel3:13). The harvest is proceeding and yet there is more work to be done. The fields are white let us get to them and bring in the harvest of souls God desires of us.
I sensed that the trees were not ready, growing yes but not maturing, not filling out.
ISA 10:33 See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.
Eze17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I the LORD bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. " `I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.' "
I sense that we are to be the tree God desires and not grow tall too fast but grow in God’s timing and in His grace and in the way He wants us to grow. Almost like a carefully tended bonsai or ornamental hedge, but most like a good vine that is carefully tended by the vinedresser and is grafted in to the true and living vine.
JN 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Let us build slowly and steadily in His timing. Your Kingdom come Lord.
