Luke Chapter 10 Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two 1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. Jesus sent these people ‘ahead of Him’ they were like John the Baptist in that they were to get the people ready to hear what Jesus had to say. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. If you ask me the harvest is still plentiful but we do not see our role as laborers in those fields. Somewhere along the line we have gotten it into our heads that it is the pastors responsibility to bring in the harvest and we miss out on the blessing for being a laborer for the Lord. We are not just to go ourselves, we are to encourage others, to teach others how to go, mostly to ask the Lord to put it into others hearts to understand their role in His harvest. According to Eph 2:10 we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God has prepared in advance for us to do. Harvesting is one of those ‘good works’ what a blessing to be part of His work and by doing so give my life meaning. When I am fulfilling the purpose I was created for my life has value.