Sowing & Reaping

John 4:32-38

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another 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.”

On being part of the Body of Christ: I might reap what someone else has sown while someone else reaps what I have sown... In the end, it's our Head who directs and provides the resources, tools, knowledge, and strength necessary to do the work.

It's not any one individual. It's many parts of one whole.

Behold, humility: humility to reap what someone else has sown and to sow what someone else will reap.