You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest,’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest.

John 4:35

Your Encouragement

The world is more ready for Christ than we think. The mistake of the church is to assume that the world has become too secular for Christ to be relevant. It’s just not true.

Look into the face of the next person you meet in the street tomorrow or your co-worker. You’ll realize that every face you see has questions to ask about life issues. They need help with life, no matter their economic or social situation. They may not admit it, but they do.

Is there anything to live for in this world? Can there be a place they can laugh again—and, I mean, really laugh again—a place to hope one more time? Is there anyone out there who can help them to Calvary’s fountain?

And so, they wait—waiting for a Sychar experience (John 4:1-26). They wait for the Jesus who dare ask them for a drink—the Jesus who knows how to thread a conversation and guide it to the depth of their heart and lay it bare before them. Their expectation may not be obvious, but their heart yearns for the Jesus who does not shrink from crossing racial boundaries and prejudices to touch them where it hurts.

Therefore, the next time you step out, look for, and engage with someone like Jesus did with the woman at the Sychar well. Be to them, as Jesus was to the Samaritan woman—a representative of Him who freely gives water that “becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life” (14).

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