Bringing in the Sheaves

Harvest Basket

Bajan Sugar Cakes

I'm not sure about other places but here in Barbados in the Salvation Army world it's Harvest Time. It's a time when we bring our provisions: banana; yam; pumpkin; okra; sugar cane; sour-sop and even prepared dishes like, sugar cakes and sweat bread to our church's harvest.


Our Harvest, for me therefore, represents two things. The actual harvest time, when persons are able to reap that which they would have sown like the banana, and pumpkin etc and a spiritual harvest. The Bible tells us that the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few. There are souls out there to be won for the kingdom but workers are needed to take up the great commission and that is ''to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit".


William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army,  expressed his willingness to follow the great commission by saying this " while women weep as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight o the very end.


We need to till the land and sow seeds for God's Kingdom. We don't help our elderly; we ignore our young people; we refuse to stand in the bus to give the pregnant lady a seat, yet, we want them to be receptive to the Word when we preach it. In essence, we have to show LOVE to our fellow man. Once we've tilled the land, we can sow the seeds of the gospel by telling persons about Christ  and Salvation. God sends the rain. I want to be a worker for the Lord!

Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,

Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;

Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.