While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work. John 9:4
“All our times are in God’s hand. Growth in mature materiality is alertness to the timefulness of every time in our life, in order that we may live it in faithful response to the Giver of all our times. Such alert responsiveness to the right moment means to yield our life back to our Creator in gratitude. In such a life there will be no automatic pilot!”
Walter Brueggemann in Materiality As Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World (Louisville: WJKP, 2020), 61.
Jesus teaches us the pathway to alertness in timefulness. During daytime, which implies during our lives, we make the most of every opportunity to do God’s works. We do this because a time will come when we can no longer work.
I love that Brueggemann urges us to “yield our life back to our Creator in gratitude.” That’s the best kind of giving. “Jesus, we surrender ourselves to you. Take care of everything.”
I depart for Colombia later today to collaborate with indigenous workers create the contextualized curriculum to spread the Palmful of Coffee vision across the Coffee Triangle.
I changed the header photo back to Colombia to give you a glimpse of the country. Pray for our team, I will do this important work in surrender and service with 12 others. Click here for our prayer calendar.