Time

If you were given 1440 dollars every day and you had to spend it. If you didn't, it would be gone forever,what would you spend it on? Each day that is what we are given; not in dollars, but in time; 1440 minutes How much of our time is wasted on television, Internet, video games or other senseless task. I have a friend of mine who has cancer and she lives every moment as if it is her last. In the bible we are told that when Christ returns it will be in the twinkling of an eye; that's pretty fast. The Word also says that this is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2 For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.) I wonder where the urgency of the church has gone. We are busy building bigger buildings with basketball courts and fellowship halls with the goal of increasing our attendance at church and have forgotten the Jesus said to "Go", not build. Jesus never built one building, fellowship hall, basketball court or any other establishment, yet, how many followed him? When the church was started and a need arose someone sold a field and met the need. They didn't have yard sales, bake sales, car washes or go to the world for help and thousands were being saved daily because someone took the time to build a relationship with the people. There is enough money in the church today that there should not be a single need that is not being met within the body of Christ. In reality this blog is about what we do with our time and I am sometimes ashamed of the way I spend mine.

Today we went back to Villa Porvenir and did a small VBS with the church of the village. Since the group from South Parkersburg has left we have formed a new team to do mini VBS at different villages and communities withing Cochabamba. The team consists of my family, our interpreter Melinda, Carmen and Lizbeth. A couple of days ago we went to the open market and bought supplies for the mission project. Our plan is to theme around David and Goliath. The kids worked on a short introduction about their self and we also danced, fed them warm soy milk, did a drama from the point of David and a craft with the kids.

This is my third time to the village and it was a completely different experience than the past two visits. When we arrived I was not timid with embracing the children and speaking to them, even though there is a language barrier. There are certain languages that are universal world wide; love, an embrace, a smile, and compassion. We spent a little over three hours with the children sharing the gospel and loving on them. My life is changing the more time that I spend outside of the wall of the organized Church. I know that we need one other no matter what color, nationality or sex that we are and that there is vital importance in meeting together as the church. None of us are strong enough to stand alone when it comes to walking the walk of a follower of Jesus; we were created for relationship. It has been two weeks since I have watched TV, played a video game or watched sports and the world is still spinning. It is all about time...