TIME FLIES


TIME FLIES

                I don’t know if time is speeding up or if I am slowing down. But life seems something like a treadmill where some unseen hand keeps turning up the dial so that we can barely keep up.



                It is already time once again to sort out the monthly truck load of food for second harvest. On Saturday, the people will begin lining up by about 8 AM… the parking lot and surrounding areas will be filled with cars and something close to 300 people will come for the food that helps them make it through the rest of the month.



                When Paul and Barnabas went up to Jerusalem to submit Paul’s Gospel to the early church leaders and apostles, they were given the right hand of fellowship. And it was understood that while Peter would head up the ministry to the Jews (The circumcised) Paul would head up the ministry to the Gentiles and having agreed to this, they sent Paul and Barnabas on their way with only one admonition, as is reported in Galatians 2:10: “They only asked us to remember the poor- the very thing I also was eager to do.”



                To love our neighbor as ourselves is to make sure that those, especially of the household of God do not go hungry or homeless or desperate.



                There is not much we can do for God. He doesn’t need our food or our money per se, for He owns it all anyway. So this is why God in His great unselfishness, gave us the pleasure and duty of giving to others as if we are doing it for Him. We give to those in need and it is counted as if we have given it to Him.



                We sometimes spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about every turn of phrase in our doctrine, when in fact the judgment will be about what we did for the poor, the naked, the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the sick and the prisoner.

                “And the King will answer and say to them: ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.” Mt. 25:40



                And so we are off to do the work of the kingdom. Have a blessed day. Jesus loves you!

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