A hymn for your Harvest Festival Service

Harvest Time

The land is ripe for harvest,

Look upward for your Lord,

He’ll soon appear in glory,

As He promised in His Word.

He’s returning for the faithful.

For those who know Him true:

Make quite certain you are ready

When He calls out loud for you.

The land is ripe, the land is ripe,

The fields are white as new:

Hasten now to reap the crops,

For the labourers are but few.

We’re told it’s just a twinkling

Of an eye, it is so brief.

He’ll return in clouds of glory

For those with firm belief.

Yes, the land is ripe for harvest,

For the people to go home,

Yes, the land is ripe for harvest,

As He calls us for His own.

The land is ripe, the land is ripe,

The fields are white as new:

Hasten now to reap the crops,

For the labourers are but few.

© 2006 Colin Gordon-Farleigh

Today I'm posting my Harvest Festival hymn once again, because there are still many churches who look for a suitable harvest hymn at this time of the year.  Whilst I think that Harvest Time fits the bill, it can be sung with just as much relevance at any time of the year of course.