Morning thoughts from Pastor Tim

Linda and I both took a day off work Friday, went caching, and picked up our daughter, Lindsey, in Palestine.
While caching in Jacksonville, we were on the side of the road looking for a board.
At least that’s what I thought it would be since the phrase “walk the plank” was used in the description and I didn’t see any pirate ships around.
While there a black woman crossed the road and asked if we were looking for something.
We told her the abbreviated version of geocaching and she went on her way.
Most people look at us like we’re crazy.
One man told us he didn’t have time to look for a lipstick container at the base of a tree.
He did have time to run up and down the road and worry about someone shooting a deer that he wanted to get. Besides, it wasn’t a lipstick container, it was a camoflagued pill bottle.
I guess each of us do something that not worth much and that includes caching.
It has no eternal value, just some temporary fun and a getaway from the norm of working and pastoring.
There are all kinds of other things that don’t mean much; I can’t understand fishermen that catch fish to throw it back.
Or how about watching football. It has no eternal value.
Painting the house is temporary, it will need it again in a few years.
Everything you see is temporary; caching, fishing, football, homes, and people.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary , but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Cor 4:16-18
I know my life as a Christian and my work as Pastor has eternal results.
Linda and I may have fun with our hobby, but how much more enjoyable leading someone to eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.