Fruits from the Labor

Fruits from our labor.  We can trust the Lord of the harvest for the results of our service in Him.  It must be recognized that there are differing kinds of "fruit".

Earlier this month, while setting up one morning outside the death camp, I heard the yell of a passing driver behind me, and turned in time to see her reach for something from the seat next to her, and see the green object fly from her hand.  

She missed me.  I waved at her as she kept going, called out, "Love your neighbor!"

Then I walked over and picked it up.  This was the item thrown at me.

It was a tomato.  I have heard and read of other servants of the LORD in history having rotten tomatoes and other produce cast at them as they sought to preach and reach the lost in their culture, but the tomato hurled at me was still very green. 

I took it home, set it on the kitchen windowsill, let it ripen, and a few days later, had it in a sandwich for breakfast, before heading out to preach and plead at the gates of death again.  

We are to face persecution for Jesus' sake with patience and joy, and sometimes where we face mistreatment, we find that the Lord our King has meant it to provide for our good, even a treat, but it is always for the praise of His glory.

"As for fruit, 

Remember what is:

Duty is ours;

Results are His."

Abortion must be Abolished.

From Lost Shoe to Tracting up the Place...

 See the Shoe?

I do not know whether other people notice shoes that are abandoned out in public, but I do.  I have seen them on the side of the road, in parking lots, and even right in the middle of busy hotspots like the Power and Light District.  

(I'm not sure how one loses a shoe when out and about.  

-Is it rejected and cast aside purposely?  

-Did it fall off and the owner didn't notice?

-Did it fall out of a vehicle when the door opened?

-Was it left by a person being kidnapped, to leave a clue, to help law enforcement to find and rescue him?

-Did the owner simply get tired of it, and just say, "Shoo"?

Sorry, these possibilities came to mind, and I ran with it.)  

Whenever I do see a shoe left out in the open square, I am reminded of a certain verse of Scripture: 

In Mark 8:36, Jesus says, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"  

I like to use it as an object lesson.  If I see it while I'm witnessing or street preaching, I will often point it out, and springboard from the lost sole to the lost soul and the Gospel. 

Today, when I saw the shoe pictured above out in a QuikTrip parking lot, I decided to make it into a Truth dispenser.  I wrote a note on a card, put some tracts in it, and placed it where it could be seen.  

From a shoe that used to leave tracks, to a shoe where tracts have been left for others. 

Abortion must be abolished.