DO WE KNOW THE TIMES?

The dicsiples didn’t, although they had walked with Jesus for a long time. They had just returned from buying groceries in town when Jesus speaks seriously to them: ”Do you not say … Behold, I say…” We can’t blame them for their opinion about the times; they were, in fact, right from a human perspective. When they looked out over the fields and thought about the season, there were yet four months until harvest time. A lot of Christians today would probably reply, ”Yes, I know the times! I know we are living in the last days; I know christ is coming soon and that the world is out of joint. I know the will be a harvest time.” All of this is corret, but Jesus wanted to say something more. It matters less what we feel or think; it is what Jesus says that matter. When He says that the fields are white – that it is ready to be harvested – it is serious. We can’t then be passive and let our own opinions rule.

But there was something He bid the disciples do: to lift up their eyes and look. If they lifted up their eyes from their groceries and from themselves, they would see people come running from the cities to hear Jesus.

Have we heart the cries from those who mourn under the pressure from the devil? It is time we gain spiritual sight, put our own interests aside, and go out into the fields.