This is an entry from my journal.
May 24th, 2007
“Sometime in the last few weeks God had told me He had a garden for me. He showed me a small garden crop of mature corn stalks standing tall. It was raining on the garden – a hard, soaking rain. Small and watered, it was mine.
I had forgotten all about it until last night. We were with Jaco (a local AG missionary here in Mozambique) showing the Jesus Film in portugese at a nearby school. When the film was over a huge crowd of people asked to receive Christ. Suddenly I realized
this was the garden
– the crop ready for the harvest,
And Jesus was raining His Living Water down on them. It wasn’t a crop I sowed, but I was given the blessing of reaping.
Praise you Lord! Thank you for my garden!
I can compare it to deep sea fishing the other day. We each reeled in a fish after it had hooked on the line and then claimed it was ‘we’ who had caught it – but really, there was no individual skill or effort involved. We just reeled it in and got to say we caught it.”
“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. 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.”
-John 4:36-38
