Wasted Effort

How often do you waste your time, energy, and effort?

Probably, a lot more often than you want to admit.

I stood out by a tree that had a branch cut off. 

As I stood there, I noticed how the tree was still sending water and sap to the cutoff branch. The tree was doing it's best to nourish something that was no longer there. Wasted effort!

We focus on things that can't be changed.

It's not only trees who behave illogically. We human beings have a tremendous habit of focusing our efforts on that which can't be changed, or trying to regrow something that's died. We struggle against the inevitable. We pour out our strength on fruitless activities.

Ephesians 5:16 tells us to be "making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil."

Are you making the most of every opportunity?

I just finished reading a book called "Ploductivity." This is a book by Douglas Wilson. Wilson has pastored a church for over 40 years. He started an elementary school, then a high school, then a college. Along the way, he's written a large number of books.

In this book, he talked about the 10- and 15-minutes time slots that we waste. How you can read a 700-page book using 10 minutes a day. In one year, you'll be finished.

We can't be making the most of our opportunities if we use our time, energy, talents, and money on old dead branches.

Jesus said in John 15:1-2 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful."

Are you trying to resuscitate a branch that Jesus has pruned?

The fields are white unto harvest! Let's get going.

Christ is still king. God Bless you.

Pastor John

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