Time Is the Soil

Thursdays are a day I get lost in thought.

So, I was thinking about time and how much of it I wasted on stupid stuff.

A whole life of junk.... until Jesus.

Now I see time so different.

Time is the soil where our worship takes root.

Time is the field where what we worship is eventually revealed by its fruit.

Every moment is a seed.

What we continually sow into time... we will eventually reap.

Quite often, what we sow is harvested by folks long after we are gone....generations to come, harvesting our choices.

I found this nugget in this amazing book I am reading.

"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life."

Galatians 6:7-8

I realize that while what we choose to plant in our little field of time matters, it is not nearly as important as spending time with the One who created time itself.

From Him flows everything worth planting.

He knows what will stand the test of....well, time....and eternity.

Here's another little gem in the Bible that speaks to spending time with Him.

"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary."

Luke 10:41-42

Martha got so caught up in what needed to be done that she missed the One she was doing it all for.

We fill our days with good things... necessary things... urgent things... until the One becomes just another thing.

So how do we know what to sow into time?

Well, unless we are spending our time with the eternal sower, Christ Jesus, we really don't.

Separate from Christ, we're just out here throwing weed seed and things that look pretty into the soil... then crossing our fingers. All for naught.

How do I know that?

Well, funny you should ask.

"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:4-5