Time for them

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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Mary Oliver the American poet once wrote: 

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

 

Is you life wild? Is it precious? And I don’t mean precious like a flower, but precious like a 4 million dollar perfect grade Michael Jordan autographed rookie card?

The question is begging to be answered… what are you living for and how are you living it? 

 

1 Timothy 6:9–11

"Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you, man of God,  flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, endurance, and gentleness.”

The love of money… not money, but the love of it. I think we could say the love of security, the love of selfish desires, the love of sex, the love of popularity, the love of laziness, the love of… fill in the blank… anything other than the love of God.

Psalm 20:6-8

6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand. 7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. 8They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.…

 

What are you living for and what are you how are you living? Good questions that very rarely are answered honestly. 

 

The question could be asked - and usually is - what are you running after in life?

But I truly believe until we answer the question “what are we running from?” - we will never truly be free to run after what we really need and not just want.

 

We live in a world like none other at any time. We aren’t just saturated in media, pictures, images, opinions and soap box pundits, we are actually drowning in them. 

EVERYONE IS COCK SURE THAT THEY KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO, BE AND PURSUE… 

So this is the point of the podcast where I tell you to run after Jesus and all he has for you - ok, sure, yes that is true and really the #1 priority… but thats not where I am going today.

Today I want you to live for and run after making a difference in someones life… 

 

WE are quick to understand time and how it plays out in our life… we understand what time we should get up, how long it takes to shower and get ready, how long it takes to drive to work, how much time to get projects done, how much time our family will require each day and on weekends, how much time we will spend at church, on hobbies, we even make time for working out, shopping and for our lawn…

But how much time have you allotted to pour into someone else’s life? 

 

Be a friend to someone who doesn’t have a father, drop some money off to a single mom, babysit the young couples kids for free so they can get away for a night. Write a note and stick it in a card to a teacher from years ago about how they helped you out in life. Buy gas for that young punk kid at the gas station and tell him you remember what it was like being young and grinding. Mow your neighbors lawn or take a coworkers car to get washed and vacuumed. Tell a mom she is doing a great job raising her kids… whatever it is- take time to invest in someone and realize that this is important. 

 

Just for once, at least once a day stop and focus on someone else. Forget about what you are chasing… and maybe you are chasing money, or God, or the american dream or Jesus, or a wife or being used by the Holy Spirit… whatever it is- don’t forget to make a difference big or small in others lives. Trust me, in the long run that will mean more than gold, money, prestige, security or youthful and lustful desires… and it actually is at the heart of the gospel.

 

Luke 4:17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,

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    to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

 

Jesus when handed the scroll, out of all the scriptures he could have read… he did not read about being a ruling king, an eternal just God, a Jealous God, a Messiah, the beginning and the end…

He talked about serving the least of these. Take time this week to be like Jesus.