“The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He send forth labourers into His harvest.” (Matthew 9:27-28)

The Lord’s work is in great need of young people to devote their lives to it.  There are many people with which we associate every day that do not know the blessings of the true Christian life.  What are we as Christian young people, and older Christians, doing to reach those in error?

In Romans 12:1, Paul says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Paul is exhorting each and every Christian to do all he or she can for Christ. God has been merciful to us by sending His Son, that through Him, we “should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The Lord does not want dead sacrifices, as under the law of Moses, but living sacrifices. We are here exhorted to use our bodies, our lives, to the service of the Lord. Paul says this is our “reasonable service.” The Lord has provided the Christian with everlasting life. Is it asking too much that we use our three score and ten years in the harvest of the Lord, spreading the gospel of Christ?

The two blind men that Jesus healed (Matthew 9:27-31) were told not to tell this feat, “But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.” These men received merely their physical sight. WE have spiritual sight, but do we spread the gospel to all around us, let alone the country?

-Alan Borders,Lives in Linton, IN and is the preacher for the Summerville Church of Christ.   

The articles above appeared in the “Exhorter”, April 1970.  At the time, he was a student at Southeastern Louisiana College and preached for the Berea Church of Christ near Franklinton, Louisiana.