p. 20 | Where Are Our Eyes? by J. B. Blosser

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1902

Where Are Our Eyes?

By J. B. Blosser

AFTER the Saviour had been successful in reaching the heart of the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, and she had gone on her first missionary trip to invite the Samaritans to come to see the Messiah, the disciples came to him, urging him to eat. He replied that he had meat that they knew not of, and then explained that his meat was to do the will of him that sent him, and to finish his work. Then he said unto them: “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” They were estimating that it was yet four months before the harvest. Their mistake lay in the fact that they did not have their eyes on the harvest fields. They were looking on temporal things, and not on the work that they were to co-operate with him in performing, hence they could not see the ripening harvest.

Shall we not as workers keep our eyes on the fields, and thus avoid the fatal mistake so often made in the work for the salvation of souls? Little can be done when our eyes are not on the harvest time. Like the disciples, many are followers of the Master, and are busy with the temporal things of life. Let us not neglect to keep our eyes upon the hungering multitudes all about us. Many would accept the message of salvation as readily as did the Samaritan woman, were the messengers as full of the meat of which the disciples did not know, as the Saviour was when he spoke to this great sinner. Let us lift up our eyes and see. J. B. BLOSSER.