Who’s the Harvest for anyway?

Morning: Psalm 140, 142; 2 Kings 23:36-24:17; I Corinthians 12:12-26

Evening: Psalm 141; 143:1-11; Matthew 9:27-34

When Jesus says, “the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few,” I need it to make sense.  Was Jesus talking about harvesting human ‘souls’, as if God needed them? I cannot serve a needy God. The idea is as difficult for me as herding people like ‘sheep’ or catching them like ‘fish’.  But isn’t a ‘harvest’ about bread? … to satisfy our need, not God’s?  Jesus is called “Bread of Life”, broken and shared for our nourishment.  So the ‘harvest’ is Jesus himself, who is everything people need to satisfy their souls’ deep hunger, the embodiment of Love.

Graham