EXCUSE ME ARE YOU JESUS?

As you read this think about what you would do! A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wivesthat they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmeninadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples fleweverywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reachthe plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE !!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told oneof them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination andexplain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal wherethe apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did. The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples,put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he didthis, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,"Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" Shenodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoilyour day too badly." As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?" He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing aboutin his soul: "Are you Jesus?" Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace. If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and actas He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture andgoing to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruisedby a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit. How about sharing this? ,,,,Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know... GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

Ed Young's Ten Commandments For A Great Marriage

1.I shall have no other human relationships before my wife, including the kids. 2.Remember the date night and keep it holy. 3.Honor my wife on anniversaries and special days (so that you may live long in the land the Lord has given you.) 4.I shall not take the covenant of marriage in vain by apathy .5.I shall not ride in a car or eat in a restaurant alone with a member of the opposite sex .6.I shall not travel alone. 7.I shall not counsel a woman with the doors closed. 8.I shall not share the details of our marriage with others. 9.I shall not watch, read, or expose myself to sexual explicit shows, books, DVDs, etc. 10.I shall remember the implications of breaking this covenant and commandment before God.

God or your Conscience? What do you watch on TV?

Yesterday as I asked God to help me make better decisions, he answered. My question was how do I decide what TV shows to watch? He said, Eddy the answer I am about to give you will help you for the rest of your life. Decide what to watch the way you decide anything and everything in your life! God said to me: ask yourself the age old question, What would Jesus do? Or to put it another way, What would Jesus watch on TV? What would you feel comfortable watching with Jesus on the couch next to you? And I said God, I don't think Jesus would like to watch murder on TV and God said then don't watch it. I said to him, But God are you telling me not to watch Law & Order? God said, no Eddy you are telling you not to watch it. You asked me a question and I answered, now did you really want to hear the answer or not? I said yes God, I did and I will not watch it anymore. I learned more than this from God yesterday, I learned something very important. That is that God speaks through your conscience and that makes it that much more important that you listen to yourself and God. Then another question came to me, I asked God, So make all decisions as if he were actually there, Because He Is ACTUALLY THERE!

"Becoming a Fool"

Billy spoke of the word fool and what the Bible says about it.He explained that you should call no one a fool ever as the Bible speaks of a fool as a person who does not believe in God and never will.."The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. - Proverbs 1:7Here is what came in today's TGIF by Os HillmanMarvin Wilson, author of Our Father Abraham, has written incisively about the various meanings for our word "fool":n Biblical wisdom literature, the pupils of the sages and mentors are the unwise, often termed "fools" (Prov. 1:7) or "simple one" (1:22). In wisdom literature, the different levels of fools - both young and old - are the raw material on which the sages had to work, and they represent the varying degrees of rawness. Perhaps as much as anything else, the term fool is descriptive of an attitude, bent of mind, or direction in life, which needs correcting. The various Hebrew words for fool occur more than a hundred times in the book of Proverbs. [Marvin Wilson, Our Father Abraham (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989), 284-286.]The reference to someone being a fool was not necessarily a negative term. A simple fool, or peti, was a person who made mistakes, but quickly righted them and was restored to fellowship with God and with others. King David was a simple fool, one who made mistakes, but kept a repentant heart toward God. This is why God did not turn away from him for his many sins.The hardened fool, kesil and ewil, makes mistakes, but never learns from them and will not listen to others. Such people can expect God's reproof to continue and will eat the fruit of their own way (see Prov. 1:31-32). The hardened fool "returns to his own vomit." King Saul was a hardened fool, one who made mistakes and continued in them even after realizing he was wrong. We're going to err in our ways. The question is, once we know we have made a mistake before God, do we make the necessary adjustments that will allow Him to intervene on our behalf? And will we avoid the same course of action in the future? God says that if we do, He will pour out His Spirit on us (see Prov. 1:23). He will make known His words to us.The third level of fool mentioned in Proverbs is the mocking fool or letz. The mocking fool mocks the things of God. This word means "scoffer" or "scorner." When you encounter cynical people who disregard the things of God, you know these people are "mocking fools."The fourth level of fool is the God-denying fool or nabal. This term relates to the morally wicked person who ignores the disgrace he brings on his family and who despises holiness (see Prov. 17:21). This person says, "There is no God." By failing to acknowledge God for who He is, the nabal declares himself to be a "God-denying" fool.I have found that it is helpful to try to understand if people are teachable. Are they simple fools, those who make mistakes but seek to learn from them? I can work with those people. But if I sense I am working with a hardened fool, I know I should not spend much time on that person. Jesus did not spend much time trying to convince the rich young ruler. He presented truth, and let him make his decision. Some people must get broken before they can become simple fools. Sometimes it is simply better to let Satan chew on people until the ground is fertile enough to present truth to them.

A Fleeting Shadow

Psalms 144:4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow. Every time I fly over a large body of water, I imagine opening the window of the jet and pouring out my coffee into the immense body of water below. I imagine the time that I spend on this earth compared to eternity is no more than that cup of coffee. The incredible size of the ocean compared to one small cup of coffee is what our life is like compared to eternity. Why then do we invest so much in temporal pursuits when we know that our investment here can have so much impact on our eternity? It is the great paradox of human behavior, especially for Christians. Does your business life have an overall ministry objective to it? This does not mean we must be constantly involved in "Christian activity." It only means that we should be about what God has called us to do with the motive of being obedient to this mission. Do not let the worries and cares of this life keep you from having an eternal impact on the lives of those you meet each day. Satan has a way of keeping our focus on the problems of today rather than the spiritual opportunities before us. He is master of the urgent, not the important. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58).

Only Jesus Can Turn A Mess Into A Message

“Obey God and leave all the consciences to him” (Charles Stanley)

“Obey God and leave all the consciences to him” (Charles Stanley)

I love Jesus Christ

This is the first of what I hope to be many posts that may help people that do not believe in Jesus understand that He is the only way to salvation and eternal life in heaven.

Ask yourself this if you do not believe in Him,

If I am right, and you are wrong who is better off the day we die?