The alarm went off at 10:02 am the other day on my cell phone and my wife asked me what that was for. 10:02 could be a reminder to me that the Yankee baseball game is 2 hours and 58 minutes away from starting on a day with a 1:00 pm business man special starting time. 10:02 could be my alarm alerting me to get my mid-morning yogurt snack. Or it could be the 10:02 Amtrak passenger train to Yuma.
Luke 10:2 states, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." We need to ask the Lord of the Harvest to “send out workers.” So 10:02 is a reminder to me that this verse has become one of my daily prayers. I encourage you to make this one of your daily prayers. Set your watch or phone for 10:02 (am or pm depending on your biological clock) every day to remind you of the Luke 10:02 prayer. So why should we be silencing our minds and turning our attention to God during this time frame?
The problem is not the harvest; the harvest is ready. I often tell church planters that they are very privileged to be called to a ministry where we aren’t going to run out of potential customers. What a blessing! The two biggest delays in most church planting projects (in any church planting organization) are: there aren’t enough qualified individuals to plant churches and not enough financial resources to plant churches.
So if the harvest is ready what is the problem? It's the workers. It’s us. We need to get to work and put making disciples that make disciples at the fore front of our minds and therefore our habits. I am ashamed at how many churches and how many of us have lost our way and haven’t done this in quite some time. Alan Hirsch warns, that if we fail at this point (discipleship) then we fail in all the others. Dallas Willard calls “non-discipleship” the elephant in the church.
If we are going to overcome acedia we need to get to work. We need to ask God to get others to work. “We need to become like a kid in a small town parade who throws candy with two-fisted fury. We need to spread the gospel everywhere we go and with everyone we meet.” ~ Kevin Harney, Reckless Faith: Embracing A Life Without Limits. If you like this I know you will start a new 10:02 habit.
