Yet, people starve as the food rots because we humans simply will not get the food from here to there. Yet, the greed for more than our share would have us tear down our barns and build bigger, rather than share. Over and over again Scripture reminds us of the harvest, likens the kingdom to the harvest, likens the farmer to God, likens the farmer to us, uses the imagery of the harvest to teach us, to startle us. Uses the reality of the harvest to confront us and shake us up. Harvest time is the most glorious time of agriculture.
Harvest time is also the most deadly time in agriculture.
He had stepped down from the tractor to clear away some cornstalks that had clogged the harvester and been pulled into the harvester. Now every farm family knows the stories of farm accidents, and if you don't know them I won't spoil your morning. No one wants to pick up the telephone and hear the word of such an accident. On that day I learned several lessons from the harvest that I want to share with you. I've been thinking about those lessons a lot recently.