God has not only come to us as a Burning Bush, Three Messengers, a pillar of fire and a cloud. God has come to us as a newborn infant in a barn. God has come to us as a man dying on a cross.
t's hard to see a harvest where we might see fields that have gone fallow or stunted by lack of rain and nutrients. It's hard to see harvest as pews have trended toward empty. But where we might
fields whose yield is questionable, Jesus sees crop that can be cultivated. Where we see empty pews, Jesus sees a barn with plenty of room to store the gathering of a plentiful harvest.