May 30, 2009

The Harvest Is Overripe

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe  Joel 3:13

The hour is late. Be diligent.  The haravest is overripe, and because it is so, there is need for gretaer care in the gathering of it.  there is need for greter tenderness...for greater compassion....for infinite patience.  This is a delicate work.  When you deal with the souls of men, you are touching the most precious thing there is.  Seek Me continually for direction and for understanding, so that  you may be able to geather the overripe fruit without bruising it.

This is so self explanitory,  People may have a harden shell, but really they are tender, or God wants to put them into a position to be tender.  We are having counselor training this weekend, preparing the counselors for working her this summer.  It is a blessing and exciting to see young people who have a heart desire to reach people for Christ, through ministry here this summer.  Our speaker is a local person who share a bit of his story, of as a child experienceing a lot of seizures and not expected to be mentally able,  at the age of 13 he accepted Christ at a camp like this and God has given him many opportunities to be a very useful person leading people to Christ.  He went on to get his masters degree in Social Work and he works at the Human Service Center in Devils Lake.  I first met him and his wife Amy during the Biblly Graham Crusade in 1999.  He is truly a man of God  that God is using, and as I look at the young people here and most of them I have watched for quite some time,  It is a blessing to see of their desire to be Gods vessels, but we are no different than they.  God wants to use us, too.

Father, help us to bloom where you have planted us, give us a heart of compassion for those about us.  In Jesus Name.  Amen.

 

Yesterday we cooked and afterdinner I drove to Devils Lake to see my friend Marlys.  This morning she and two other ladies are flying to Israel.  They will be there 8 days.  During their time there, on Tuesday there is a planned war drill, to prepare the people for what to do, when and if it should happen.  They anticipate being attacked from three sides.  So you might want to watch the news for that event.  Marlys and I met in the Bible book store in Grand Forks years ago when she was going to Russia and I had missionary friends there(they are still there but now they hare sending people to US as missionaries)  Marlys has expressed to me that she felt I was to go to Israel, but I haven't felt that way,  You know that I do have a heart to learn about the Jewish people and when she returns I plan to help her with some Jewish research.  She feels that her family is jewish.

I came back to camp, and was very glad to get out of Devils Lake too many cars....