Workers for The Harvest

Do you not say, “There are yet four months, then comes the harvest”? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 3
6 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.” 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. John 4:35-38

The context is the Samaritan woman Jesus meets at a well and Jesus has a conversation with her. Then the disciples return, and the woman leaves.

The woman tells the town about Jesus, and they come out to Jesus (this is the harvest). It is hard to determine who Jesus is talking about, who is the sower and the reaper. But possibly the sower is the woman and Jesus is the Reaper. But He tells the disciples that they are reapers.

Application? I am both a sower and a reaper. It depends on who I am engaged with. But Paul clarified that one sows and the other reaps but the Lord is the one who makes the growth (1 Cor 3:7-8). So ultimately God is sower through prophets, teachers, evangelists, and plain old people like you and me. God is the Reaper through the Holy Spirit! What should I do? Just keep on doing what's at hand.