Thoughts for the day

It's been a while since I wrote a blog, and it occurred to me that maybe it was time to post.

Often we want to see a change in a person, and as Tozer says, we "convince the mind before God can win the heart," and we become divided. God has a schedule of events in His eye and we can not rush His plan. I see this repeatedly in my life and in the TECS mission. TECS has now been around for almost a year, and I have been seeking what God has been doing with it. I desired to see it succeed, but yet we generated very little activity. I began pushing, and only exhausted myself. Recently, I surrendered this mission to God, and have already begun seeing His sovereign working in it. Not only this, but I am seeing it in my life and the world around me more. I had long ago convinced my mind before God had convinced my heart, and consequently had become divided.

On a side note, wives are a blessing to husbands. My dear wife cornered me and confronted me about every direction I had sent myself in. She steered me back into God and I am excited to see His working in me and in her. Our faith is not something private, but rather like a good sauce in pasta, it penetrates the entirety of our worlds and seeps out of us so that we are light and salt by our very nature. Fruit must be grown, never produced, and to grow it, we can only provide an ideal environment for it. So the question at the end is, how are you preparing yourself and your world to bear fruit? Are there impurities in your mind that should be confessed and surrendered? Perhaps you have a job, or a spouse, or even yourself that you have never given to God. Now is the time.
"You know the saying, 'Four months between planting and harvest.' But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest." John 4:35, NLT