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Look on the Fields

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 30, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 39.

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Look on the Fields

THE words which Jesus spoke to his disciples in connection with his talk with the woman at Jacob’s well need to be often repeated in our time: “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” There is a great work to be done by God’s people before the coming of the Lord, and the very doing of this work will be the best possible preparation of God’s people for the coming of the Lord. We must constantly bear on our hearts the great fields which have never heard this message. When we remember that within the territory of the European General Conference there are five hundred million people, very few of whom have received the truth as revealed to this people, it ought to stir our hearts greatly, and lead to earnest consecration to service. The testimony from many fields is that the doors are open to the truth, and it only needs those who will enter these open doors. It needs no argument to show that there must be in the church now the same revelation of divine power, the manifest working of God with his servants, as was seen in the early church when the gospel of a crucified and risen Saviour was proclaimed in the then known world in one generation. It is only under the personal leadership of the Captain of the Lord’s host, and only through the power which comes from such leadership, that the work before us can be accomplished in this generation. But the resources of God are not limited, and he has agencies ready to bring into use just as soon as the human instrumentalities are willing to act their part in the campaign. The spirit of Caleb and Joshua is now needed as the inspiration of all the Lord’s people. They had the same opportunity to see the difficulties as the other spies, but they saw at the same time the sufficiency of the Lord, who was with them. “Rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.” The faith of Caleb and Joshua brought them into the possession of the land, whilethe others perished in the wilderness. This same faith will enable us to see the end of this work in this generation. Let us “look on the fields.”