Underground ReLOVEution

My clock is broken. I don't even know when the hands stopped moving. I didn't look at it often because I was too lazy to take it off the wall and adjust to daylight savings time. I did not notice my clock was not working because it continued to tick. The ticking that can be heard when the house is silent was all I noticed from the clock. It took several glances in a week to recognize my clock was not keeping time. It filled the void of silence and even decor theme on my wall, but did not serve the purpose it was designed for.

I can go to church, serve as a leader and try my best to follow rules, or even attend a Bible study [all that ticking], but if I am not connected to God and loving others, the purpose is missed entirely [telling time]. Last week Steve talked about the simple answer Jesus gave us: Love God and love people. If you are just following rules, you've missed the point entirely. Love is not a set of rules.

I could let that clock tick until the battery dies, but the fact is something is internally broken, keeping the clock from serving its purpose. Now it's just taking wasting space on my floor.
Is something broken inside your clock and you're just hoping no one will look close enough long enough to realize the hands aren't moving at all?

Sometimes I feel empty inside. My hands aren't moving. I'm going no where. My clock is not working. I serve no purpose. Then I remember, Jesus is my battery. Jesus is my clockwork. Jesus is my reason to keep time and if I am the clock, I won't be reading my own time. If I am the clock, God is the one looking. ...that could go into a whole other idea of how we don't see or need to know what positive affects we have in serving God, and we just need to do it no matter what, but I'll save it for another time...

If you're just ticking without working, we are here for you. Consider your leaders assistants to the clock master [God].

Come with your friends to Mill Creek Foursquare Church in Lynwood on May 2nd! We will be packaging meals during a two-hour time slot (to be determined by when most people can go.) Each meal consists of lentils, rice, fortified chicken powder, and dried vegetables. Last year, Children of the Nations shipped out 285,000 meals after this event! The food, packaging, and shipping for each meal costs 25 cents, and each person who comes is encouraged to raise around $60 to pay for the food we are packaging, but if you can't come up with that much, come and help anyway!

SO EXCITED!

Holly

On Sunday Junior High had intercession outside with chalk and this is some of what happened....





By Ryan Anderson.













(Caleb was really excited about the game we played...)