Growing Grass

     There is a saying that goes, "Well, they don't let any grass grow under their feet."  It is saying that they are constantly doing something.  They don't seem to be standing still for any length of time.  I sometimes think that I need a vacation as I have not had one like the rest of my peers for a very long time.  Well, the last one was a trip to an amusement park about 12 years ago.  I still get advertisements from them but I don't go on rides that leave the ground or need a lot of funnel cakes.  Then, when I think about it, the word "vacation" doesn't seem to appear in the Bible.  I can't say that I have seen anyone leaving the work for two weeks.  The closest time to someone taking some time off was Peter falling asleep on the roof at Joppa.   Acts 10:9-10 says, "On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:  And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance," 
       We know the story.  It was the time of the vision of the sheet being lowered from heaven with all kinds of beasts and creeping things in it and being told to eat.  The purpose of the vision was because some people were heading for Peter's gate that were Gentiles and Peter was being prepared to meet them and to accept them into the house and then to eat with them.  So, even this recorded slumber had a divine purpose.  When we look at the lives of the the apostles and even of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, we see that they were continually about the work of the ministry and that no grass was going to grow under their feet.  Spare time was at a minimum and if there was any, it was being used to get from one place to another.  Even when someone was traveling they were things to do.  Paul remarks quite often that he is and has been in prayer about a certain group.  Paul must have had quite a prayer list because he often said that he was continually in prayer for a group of people.  You and I have a ministry.  We are part of the Body of Christ and our gift or gifts of the Holy Spirit are continually being used.  This is how the body is functioning.  There is a mission song that I refer to now and then called, "The Grass is Growing."  It is the story of a Christian native in a tribe who goes out each day to pray.  The result is a path becomes visible as the same route is taken day after day after day.  Soon, it is bare because of the times of prayer that had taken place.  Then, one day, the man doesn't go out and then the next day neither.  Soon, the grass begins to grow on the path that was once bare.  He is confronted by a brother who informs him that he must be sinning because the grass is growing on his path to his prayer spot.  Well, how about you?  Is grass growing on your path?  Praise God today that He has something for all of us to do in His fields that are white unto harvest.