Jason Helopoulos

We're giving Him adoration.

We're giving Him thanksgivings.

We're just spending time with Him.

This maybe is where we suffer more than anywhere else.

I have a dear friend that is from Malawi, Africa, and he sent me just the other day.

He's a church planter in Malawi, Africa, and he has a friend of his that labors in East Africa.

And he sent me this little

proverb from his friend in East Africa.

He said that there in East Africa in the early centuries of the Christian church that the East Africans had quite a commitment to daily private worship and that there in East Africa they would go outside the village and they would all go into the thatch out there outside the village and go there into the woods and they would each kind of have their own little place where they would

kneel down and they would worship and there they would spend time with the Lord in private.

And he said those became well-worn paths.

And so it became apparent when a man or a woman in the village wasn't going out and spending time any longer with the Lord in prayer or had neglected it.

And the phrase that they would use with one another was, brother, the grass grows on your path.

Does the grass grow on your path?

Are you spending time on your face before the Lord?

Now here's one of the great traps, I think, especially for Christians.

We can be so busy about kingdom stuff that we're not busy with our king.

This was the era of Mary and Martha, right?

When Mary is sitting at the feet of the Lord and Martha is in great error, she is so busy, she's prepping all of the food, she's doing all kinds of things.

And then she's complaining against Mary.