This applies to all aspects of our spiritual lives, including witnessing and seeing people saved and growing in the Lord, which is the spiritual harvest we all long to see. God’s laborers in the spiritual harvest of souls are promised great reward for their faith and perseverance (James 1:12 1 Peter 5:4 2 Timothy 4:8 Hebrews 11). That is why our focus should be on pleasing the One who sent us into the field rather than on controlling the rate of growth or the amount we reap. Some of us are sowers and may never see the result of our labor.
If we don’t see anyone getting saved, it can be discouraging, but we need to remember that sowing is just as important as reaping. Just like the physical growth of a field, the spiritual growth of people is a natural, organic process, overseen by God Himself. In fact, the Bible indicates that the sower, the tender, and the reaper are likely to be different people at different times (John 4:35–38 1 Corinthians 3:6–9). The process of spiritual growth and maturity, from the heart’s regeneration to the recognition of faith, is often a long journey. However, we can be faithful to sow the seed, help the plants to grow, or reap the harvest. There is nothing we can do to change the soil-that is God’s job (Ezekiel 36:26). It is clear from the parable of the seed and the sower that some people’s hearts are good soil when the Word of God is sown there, the person accepts it and continues to mature (Luke 8:9–15). Jesus saw the spiritual harvest of souls awaiting in that village.Ī spiritual harvest is the result of God’s work in the heart of man. In the days following this statement, many of the Samaritans became believers in Christ (verse 41). After talking to the woman at the well, Jesus told His disciples, “Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest” (John 4:35). Jesus used the same metaphor of a spiritual harvest in Samaria. Here, Jesus referred to the many souls needing to be brought to repentance and faith as a harvest waiting to be realized. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest’” (Matthew 9:36–38). As Jesus traveled, “he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Jesus spoke of a spiritual harvest waiting to be reaped. Israel celebrated the time of the harvest with a feast, appropriately called the Feast of Harvest (Exodus 23:16). It is symbolic of bounty, health and abundance. The harvest has always been a beautiful and important part of life on earth, the time when the year’s work bears fruit and the people are fed. It is used in parables (Luke 8:4–8) and as a metaphor for spiritual growth and health (2 Corinthians 9:10 James 3:18). One bite and you'll believe in Great Harvest.Throughout the Bible, the harvest carries spiritual significance. And this is where it all comes together, every morning just before dawn at an old-fashioned neighborhood bakery and cafe, where good ingredients matter, where local flavor matters, where words like real and fresh still means something, and where the bread means everything. This is where the greatest wheat in the world comes from. Their wheat berry is milled every morning on site from the grains of Montana's Golden Triangle. Homemade soups and salads, and grain bowls, a killer coffee and espresso bar, and that unmistakable irresistible aroma of freshly baked breads.
There are, however, lots of cookies and handcrafted signature sandwiches, where what's on the top and bottom is as tasty as what's in between. Every Great Harvest Bakery and Cafe is as unique as the community it serves. It would be a link to an old fashioned way of doing things that today feels very fresh, to bread, the way it ought to be. So we decided early on that Great Harvest wouldn't be a chain. And we believe that bread at its best makes everything around it better. It happened this morning, and it will happen again tomorrow wherever there is an appetite for something real and something really good, which is pretty much everywhere. NARRATOR: The story starts before dawn with stone milled whole grain wheat.
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