Thursday, May 29, 2025
“May you be covered in the dust of your rabbi.” Kathy Griffith originally shared that quote with us several weeks ago in a sermon but Jordan reminded us of that quote in his message last Sunday.
This week that quote has come to my mind several times but, God put a twist on it, imagine that! He dropped this thought into my mind… “You are covered in what you follow closely.” Ouch. That stung a little.
What would you and I be “covered in” if someone could see what I “follow so closely”? Covered in shopping bags? Covered in gossip? Covered in work? Covered in social media or television shows that hollowly entertain me for hours on end?
As Jordan asked us last week, what is FORMING us? Even since Sunday, have we made any adjustments to our daily life to “feed on” the things of Christ (scripture, prayer, the community of faith, spiritual disciplines, or worship)? Or was Sunday just Sunday and we heard some words and then went on about our lives as usual? Have we allowed the Spirit to work as WE have worked this week?
I want to leave you with a passage in Matthew 13 verses 19-23….
19 “What was sown along the path represents the one who listens to the message of the kingdom but doesn’t understand it. The Adversary then comes and snatches away what was sown into his heart. 20 “The one sown on gravel represents the person who gladly hears the kingdom message, but his experience remains shallow. 21 Shortly after he hears it, troubles and persecutions come because of the kingdom message he received. Then he quickly falls away, for the truth didn’t sink deeply into his heart. 22 “The one sown among thorns represents one who receives the message, but all of life’s busy distractions, his divided heart, and his ambition for wealth result in suffocating the kingdom message and it becomes fruitless. 23 “But what was sown on good, rich soil represents the one who hears and fully embraces the message of the kingdom. Their lives bear good fruit—some yield a harvest of thirty, sixty, even one hundred times as much as was sown.”
Wholeheartedly,
Dana Gilliam
Executive Director of Ministries
Fayette First Methodist Church
Fayette First Methodist Church 