time

This morning when I awoke I had projects on my mind. I felt these things needed priority status in order for our Christmas to run smoothly, and was going to set my quiet time aside for them. However, the Lord countered me in my thinking, saying that my priorities were oppressing me. Hmmm. He was right. I was beginning my day with stress instead of with the Holy Spirit. Here is the Word the Lord shared with me after I got up;

“Man is pressured by his sense of time ending. But time ending is a culmination of things I have set in place and is not a series of events Man must do.

For instance, “Salvation is from God.” (Rev 19:1) Salvation has been in the earth many centuries and does not wait for Man to rush in his attempts to evangelize the world. I planted the seeds of salvation long ago. Each generation waters them, yet I am the patient farmer who waits for the final culmination of the obedience of mankind (Jms 5:7). The works of men each stand on those who have gone before them. None are insignificant, yet no one’s works stand alone. The final harvest could never be accomplished by just one generation.

But Man is in a hurry. In his frenzied attempts to do something for God, he doesn’t see that all he does is for himself. And as I foretold, he neglects to love.

Why have men’s hearts grown cold? Because love takes time . . . time away from accomplishing great things. If men spent time the way I spend time their works would be eternal. They would clothe Me, feed Me, and shelter Me, not knowing it was Me (Mt 25:31-40). They would give Me my portion in due time (Mt 24:45-46). If I asked them to walk with Me a mile, they would spend 2 miles-worth of time with Me . . . all in the face of the unlovely (Mt 5:41). For men seldom spend time with those who seem unworthy to them. Yet I come as rejected and needy; as their elderly mother or their errant teenager. Spend your time as I do, loving, nurturing seeds unto the harvest. What you do for those who are needing your love and time is what you do for Me and My harvest." Amen