I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time with faithbook. The problem arises in the fact that faithbook causes me to become angry because of the things said about me in it. I’m not that bad.

Why did God ever invent faithbook in the first place? Is He trying to reveal something to me that I’ve been suppressing all of my life? Can it be that He is trying to communicate directly to me through all His faithbook pages? So many posts, can I possibly stay up?

I’m not going to delete faithbook. I need this resource in my life.

Hebrews 12:1-2

 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

Faithbook has been a blessing for me since I signed on. My prayer is that it is a blessing for you also.

Think about it.

Gary

Take a good look in the mirror and you may discover you need a faith-lift. Your faith will have a much better appearance after a lift. People will ask, what in the world ever changed your faith so that it now has that appearance.

Don’t just choose any surgeon for the faith-lift.  Contact the one true Physician who has been able to bring about change in a person’s faith for thousands of years.

He’ll introduce you to a mirror that can reveal the change in your faith.

James 1:22-25

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Believe me, everyone will appreciate your new faith.

Think about it.

Gary

The movie City Slickers was shown in 1991. Here was the most humorous and interesting conversation that involved a 39-year-old going through a midlife crisis and an old cowboy.

Curly: “Do you know what the secret of life is?” [holds up one finger] “This.”

Mitch: “Your finger?”

Curly: “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean anything.”

Mitch: “But, what is the ‘one thing’?”

Curly: [smiles] “That’s what you have to find out.”

I’m here to tell you what that one thing that neither Mitch nor Curley knew.

Luke 10:42

But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

That one thing was to sit at Jesus’ feet and hear what He had to say.

Have you chosen that one good thing?

Give it some thought.

Gary

I had gone through the ice on the Allagash River. Looking up, I saw the outstretched arm and hand of my cousin. He yelled, “Take my hand!” That wasn’t the first time he rescued me, and there would be many more to follow, none of which included ice.

He’s gone now and a part of my support system went with him.

The Apostle Paul never missed an opportunity to thank those who were supportive of him.

Ephesians 1:15-16

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

Remember those who have been there for you through the years. Don’t forget to thank them before it’s too late.

Give it some thought.

Gary

The mother walked into the room and noticed her three-year-old son had his boots on the wrong feet. Taking it as a teaching moment, she related to him that he had his boots on the wrong feet.

The boy responded, “But, Mom, they are the only feet I have.”

Sometimes we can lose what is being said by taking it too literally.

Case in point was Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. He wasn’t teaching that we had to literally wash one another’s feet. However, we do need to help in keeping each other clean.

John 13:7

Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”

We need to make sure we understand what people are saying, but more importantly, we need to understand what Jesus is saying.

Give it some thought.

Gary

When I turned five, it was time for the training wheels to come off my bike and for me to become a man. Fortunately or unfortunately, there were two cousins of mine more than willing to help. They each held one side of the bicycle and ran as fast as they could down the center of the highway and let me go.

Like Wilbur Wright’s first flight, it only lasted three seconds.  The crash was witnessed and totally enjoyed by my cousins. They helped me up, and with much encouragement placed me and the bike back in the center of the road for another try. They were really enjoying the adventure.

To make a long story short, before the darkness fell I was riding my bike and as free as a bird.

There are some things in life we just can’t give up on. Case in point: our Christian walk.

Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

It is always too soon to quit.

Think about it.

Gary

His name was William Carey. The man spent forty-one years of his life as a missionary to India. His life was not one without many trials and tribulations. However, there was one thing that seemed to propel him through the warfare only known to Christians. It was a saying he had, “Expect great things from God.”

He experienced many of these great things because he was faithful to the Great Commission, which is for all Christians.

Matthew 28:19-20

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

What do you think about the Great Commission?

Give it some thought

Gary