STEP TWELVE
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
[FONT=TimesNewRoman,Italic]“My food,” said Jesus “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, four months more and then the harvest, I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sewer and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and one reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”[/FONT]
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Having received spiritual renewal and healing it should be very evident to us that we can retain these only as we are willing to offer and share them with others! Jesus is telling his disciples that the satisfaction of completing the work the Father has entrusted to him was greater than any other food (motivation) He might have been given. Jesus is pointing out that the spiritual harvest is always ready and must be reaped before it spoils! The disciples would not have to wait indefinitely for the results of their mission as the sowing and the reaping could go on together! Jesus implied that they had already received a commission to reap for him and that they could benefit from the preparation that he and the Prophets had already made! The reaping of people for the granary of God is not the task of anyone individual or group nor is it confined to any one era in time. Each reaps the benefits of
their forerunners and succeeding generations in turn gain the accomplishment of their predecessors!
