Wheat World

Bethlehem was a house of bread, this being depicted in the very Hebrew words used to make Bethlehem. Beth, meaning house and lehem meaning bread. At His first advent, Christ came to the house of bread as bread. He came as bread to turn rotten and soiled sinners into bread. For we who are many are one bread (1 Corinthians 10:17). Christ came to Bethlehem to turn the wasteland outside of it into a wheatfield. And this He has done. As it is hard to stay in the dark in light-world, so it is hard to go hungry in wheat-world.

Still, anxiety frets because its afraid it won’t get bread. Greed grabs because it wants more bread. Envy glances because it wants another’s bread. But all of these have this underlying principle in common: They believe they’re in a world of famine when they’re really in a world full of grain and leaven. Should these have eyes to see the bread of the new covenant springing up from the ground, then the anxious would find their fretting comical, the greedy would give, and the envious would take delight in the bread his brother has. How could they not in a world where five loaves feeds five thousand?

But when there’s this much wheat on the hills, you can expect our Lord to  say, “Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest” (John 4:35). In view of all of that food, Jesus said, “My meat is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish his work” (John 4:34). He called His disciples to reap with a word that is well-suited to us today: “One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereupon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours” (John 4:37-38). Notice it is not that other men labored and the disciples could grow fat and sassy. No, they entered into the labors of those who went before them and both he that sowed and he that reaped rejoiced together in the eternal harvest. You do the same as you come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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