And It’s Still Just Blinking 12:00

A typical microwave oven consumes more electricity powering its digital clock than it does heating food. While heating food requires as much as 100 times the power as running the clock does, the microwave heats food less than 1% of the time while the clock is typically always running. Therefore, in total, the clock uses up more electricity.

There is a lesson there. Many of use a lot more of our resources (time, energy, effort, money) in the mundane things of life rather than in our real intended purpose. It doesn’t seem like much but often it is the little things that add up to keep us from being fruitful in the Lord kingdom.

“but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”

Mark 4:19

These trivialities become common excuses for many Christian. I just don’t have the time. I’m just so busy. When things settle down. When I've got less on my plate. Lots of little things to why we don’t have the energy to be active in the Kingdom. But what did Jesus tells us?

"And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. "For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. "But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Luke 12:29-31

If we focus our efforts on the main purpose, the little extras will cover themselves. God didn’t put us on this earth to run out the clock, he gave us the power to transform the world around us!

Do you know how a microwave works? The magnetron excites the particles in an item to movement that generates heat and cooks the food. Sound familiar? Christians are to stimulate one another to love and good deeds (Hebrews10:24). We can't do that if we wasting our energy on the little things.

Is your power being directed or just dribbling away?

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