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The harvest is ready! In John 4, Jesus chided His disciples for missing a harvestable person (the woman at the well). They, too, had an excuse: “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest’” (John 4:35, NASB). Perhaps, the wheat fields that Jesus was pointing to were green. Each of the disciples knew it would take four more months of maturing before they would be ready to harvest. But Jesus used that agricultural analogy to describe a heart attitude of the disciples. While Jesus sat at the well, tired from traveling, whom did the disciples pass on the road to the Samaritan village? In all likelihood, they passed the woman coming to the well. They missed her, while Jesus found her. Their circumstances were identical. Twelve found a field that was not yet ripe, while One found a field ready for harvest. Today, many people believe that their neighbors and friends are already believers. Others, however, believe that their fields are ready now. Their eyes have been opened to realize that the Spirit has already prepared some people in these fields for harvest. Does this mean that all fields will yield the same harvest? Absolutely not!   All fields do not yield the same harvest, but all are harvestable.