Our lives have things interwoven into them, much like these fabrics. The question is do the interwoven images that stand out in your life speak of the things of God, or the things of this world?No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:4
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2 Peter 2:20
Most of us are not familiar with the term 'inweave' but it is a process by which a pattern or image is woven into a fabric. The Greek word in the above two passages that is translated entangleth/entangled actually means to 'inweave'.
2 Tim. 2:4 warns us not to inweave the matters of the world into the fabric of our lives. Is your fabric covered with colorful and creative images of God and His grace in your life? If God has begun a good work in you, He will be faithful to complete it. (Philippians 1:6).
2 Pet. 2:20, on the other hand, warns us that if we ignore God's warning not to inweave the things of the world into our fabric, that it can get to the point where we ourselves are nothing more than a patch inwoven into the fabric of the world.
We are constantly inweaving images and designs into the fabric of our lives. Those of us that are Christ followers should hope that eventually the images and designs of God on us will be so plentiful and overwhelming that when people look at us, they see Jesus.
Those people that are not Christ followers run the risk of one day being so covered with the images and designs of the world that they get ultimately covered, and ultimately lost.
Some of us are better at this inweaving thing than others, but all of us are inweaving things of one sort or another into the fabric of our lives each day that we live. Take the world, but give me Jesus.
Yours in Him,
Pastor B.
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