TOTALLY DISTRACTED

Okay so I confess that I'm a little distracted. Several of you that follow my blog have called to check on Sarah because I haven't posted in a few days... I have 2 words...NO BABY! After the doctor told us 10 days ago that it would be "any day" we are STILL waiting on that "any day" to happen.

A few days back I posted about the garden and how the ground was so freshly prepared at one time but now it's not...well I've still been thinking about that analogy with spiritual things and I've got a little more to say.

Isn't it funny how we just WISH the seeds and plants would plant themselves. I have high hopes for a garden but it's going to take some TIME investment on my part if I want to see any harvest. As I said I did manage to squeeze in some time to plant some sunflowers and wildflowers before the rain came, but that large rectangle still stares me in the face every time I drive up and down my driveway.

Our Christian walk is sometimes like that unplanted garden. We have grand and high expectations about seeing a garden full of beans and corn and tomatoes and yet we don't really want to work towards that end. I've noticed that sometimes in our Christian walk we expect God to just drop things in our lives without any effort or labor on our behalf.

I must confess I can see God using me and Sarah in some pretty exciting ways but I know that my spiritual "fields" are still being prepared. I have so many things that I want to do in my walk and in my time of study and prayer with God but there's always something that tries to either compete for that time or take me out of that time altogether. Yet I walk around in arrogance and still expect God just to bless me or my ministries just because it's me? That hurts a bit I must say.

Just like with my garden, I can't expect seed just to sow itself and sprout up and yield results. To see results I have to go to the store, choose the seed, plant them, water, weed, and care for them and then and only then would I be able to see the results of my labor. In my spiritual life I cannot expect to see God work and move in amazing ways if all I'm ever doing is thinking about the harvest instead of actually investing the efforts into the harvest.

I want to see the nation of Ukraine turned upside down for Christ. It won't get done if I stay at home will it? No I must go in order to be apart of what God is doing there and join Him in His work. If I stay home, then I'm silent. If I'm silent then the Ukrainians don't hear and if they don't hear then they don't believe! If I sow silence then I reap silence. If I sow the Word then the Lord will do the reaping!

I want to challenge you today to get out there and start planting and working your spiritual garden...start praying like your very life depended on it...start reading the Word as if it would be permanently be taken away from you tomorrow...start believing God for a mighty move of His Spirit and be willing to be used by Him...no matter where the fields are or what they may look like.