NO TIME

I knelt to pray though not for long,
I had too much to do;
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I hurried and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done,
My sould could rest at ease.

All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer.
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They'd laugh at me I'd fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry.
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.

I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in His hands God held a book;
It was called the Book of Life.
God looked into His book and said
"Your name I cannot find,
I once was going to write it down...
But never found the time."

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

How many times in our walk with the Lord have we found ourselves in a situation such as this. We allow our day to be so filled with the cares and worries of this world that we scarcely are able to make the time necessary for the One who died on Calvary some 2000 years ago; the One who died so that we could be set free from our state of bondage.  Jesus spoke in Matthew 13:22 and 23 concerning the Parable of the Sower, "The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." Scripture tells us plainly that if we receive the Word as well as the salvation that has been offered to us and yet we allow our worries or even our everyday lives to interfere with our walk with the Lord, we will ultimately become unfruitful if we continue in that direction.  Matthew 3:10,12 states "The ax is already at the root of the tree, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire...His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire." We can either give God 100% of who we are and be as the tree that bears good fruit or even as wheat that is going into the storehouse or we can keep living our lives thinking that a little bit of prayer or reading of the Word will suffice, living a life where we aren't praying or reading perhaps as much as we should and in the long run risk not only being spritually weak Christians but also risk our very walk with the Lord and possibly backslide because of it. So now the choice is up to each of us...Do we choose to be the type of Christian who seeks God with all that is in us regardless of what else is going on in our lives and be able to rest well knowing that our name is written in the Book, or would we rather choose to be the type of Christian who will go all day without making time for the Lord and by the time evening comes, is too tired to seek His face and so we'll just close our eyes and fall asleep. That choice I leave up to you...