The world was once a big place. It took hundreds of years for explorers and navigators and adventurers to discover the corners of the earth and realize that there are no actual corners. Today we look at a world that is accessible. Easily traveled, and simply visited. I am sitting on an airplane right now, in my comfortable first class seat. ( I got upgraded for being a frequent flyer. One perk to flying to Africa twice in a year.)
As I recline my seat back and look out of the window a vast scape for as far as the eye can see captures my attention. It sparked this thought; “What a small world.” We hear this said whenever we meet a common friend, or an old acquaintance. The truth is, it is a small world. I am flying to Philadelphia, PA, which is in the complete opposite side of the Continental United States of America. It will take me five hours to fly completely across the country. This summer it took 19 hours to fly half way across the world. What I am trying to express is that we live in a different world. A world that is ripe for the harvest. A world that is set up for the deliverance of a message. With air travel, internet and other communication devices our effectiveness in ministry should be as cutting edge as that ridiculous super jet I just read about in the inflight magazine that flies from the US to England in three hours.
We have the resources, and everything that is necessary to accomplish the Commission. What a small world? What am I doing to affect this small world? Because, straight up it is so ready to be reached.
“The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few.”
I feel very harvesty, just had my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the year. Let autumn begin. Let the harvest begin!
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