Monday's Devo - Let's Work Together

Read John 4: 31-54
The disciples come back and try to get Jesus to eat something. Jesus tries to make a point that there are more important things than eating...like doing God's will. Jesus points out that you harvest your crops every 4 months, but you can harvest souls all year round. Just like in farming you have reapers and sowers. They are both responsible for the harvest and both receive payment for their work. That is how it works in the kingdom. You may be the sower and only plant seed into people's hearts and never see the result. Or you may the reaper who comes along and says just the right thing that evokes a response to God. The seed in that person had grown to the stage where it was ready to be harvested. The harvest could not have happened if the seed had not been planted.
Jesus ended up staying in Samaria for 3 days because the people were so hungry then he went to Cana. Cana was where Jesus did his first miracle which was to turn the water to wine. He is fixing to do his second one there. This time it was raising a young boy from his death bed. The father came to Jesus to ask him to come and heal his son. Jesus just told him to go home because his son was alive and healed. The man believed Jesus' word and when he went home he found his son had been healed at the exact hour Jesus proclaimed it.
Jesus made the statement that he couldn't do much in that city because a prophet doesn't have honour in his own country or his own house. Jesus country was Cana and his house was the house of Abraham. In Matthew it says that they were offended by him because they knew he was the carpenter's and Mary's son so he couldn't do many mighty works because of their unbelief.
We do that too. We get familiar with people and don't respect the spirit of God in them. It comes down to jealousy which leads to murder. In Jesus case it was a physical murder, but with us it is usually a death by mouth. We tear down with our tongues. When will we realize we are on the same team fighting for the same cause? When one of us is exalted, we all win.
The fields are white and ready for harvest. May we work together to scatter the seed and reap the harvest.