Keep that fishin' pole in the water!

You might have reeled in your line, turned around and headed for the car or cabin, when an older man asked if you were new. "You're  leavin' to soon."  You reply with;  "Haven't had a bite."
"In this river you got to keep the hook in the water and not give up!"

The  fishermen were cleaning their nets because they were done and disgusted with no product for the market.  Jesus told them to launch out into the deep. One time He even told them to throw their nets out on the other side of the boat. What's He saying?  "I'm God. Don't give up!"

Peter's about to leave the ministry. Jesus in a sense,

told him to keep the hook in the water.
Elijah?  Keep the hook in the water
David? Keep the hook in the water
Jeremiah? Don't give up. Keep the hook in the water

Reader of this paragraph, myself included; Do not give up. Have you failed? Do you think it's over? It looks hopeless.
Keep your hook in the water like all of the above characters, God still wants to use you!

Jesus told them:  "I gave you a large catch of fish, follow me and I will make you a fishermen of men, women,  boys and girls"

Jesus didn't give up (what if He had?).  He lived and died for us, according to the plan of God.
  That's good news.

Pass it on

This blog is alive and breathing merely, to cast excitement for interest and investment toward other people.  These posts are not here only, pushing human welfare, but also a burden for the eternal well being of men, women, boys and girls. Praying for heart transformation , followed by life transformation. That, equals community development.

You also know there are people on their way to an eternity spent with God, yet  living a hell on earth existence that may or may not be  a fault of their own.  I also pray for them and might desire to write something real, in order to wake us up to their plight and come along side with encouragement and God's word.

Using books, blogs and tweets let us share our hearts and minds, being this community for a community. We are in it but not of it. Our citizenship is elsewhere while being ambassadors for God here. It is all well and good to perform community service, but the individual, must hear or read the good news of Christ and of their believing and trusting, Christs life, death and resurrection,  and His ascending to God, as their only hope to spend eternity with God. Then, we Celebrate, connect and then do community.

In our ministries, church, computers at homes, if we are healthy, may we not just take up space.  We can make a commitment that through the love and power of God we will be the conduit through which He uses, for His purpose and glory in the world.

I'm not rich, highly educated or even very healthy but we can be the voice and the watchmen on the wall standing in the gap toward the goal of people following Christ and "COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT."

YOU!

Whatever is written,  and  shared, is for YOU.
Whatever I have clicked "like" on, I thank YOU.

Sometimes I post something and realize that isn't appealing to YOU,
 and not even good to me, it gets deleted.

When I see something on another social media, I think.. YOU might like that.
When I'm out driving or taking a walk, I wish I had my camera, so I could show it to
YOU.

I love YOU and God does to!

Leftovers

You had a great time at the; Thanksgiving meal, tea party or church dinner.  Hilarious games and great food, but when it's time to go home there is a bad taste in your mouth. Some of the fun atmosphere evaporates, when the couple or person  that has  a good career or finances, walks with the last table full of leftovers, passing on the way out, an empty handed couple that doesn't have money for their next meal. Then there's the time all eyes pop open wide, when the well off couple, who are banking their money, eats most of the table while complaining, leaving no leftovers. Selfies!!  SHARE the food, SHARE the leftovers.

It's is amazing to see the opposite, when a frail older lady is giving food, clothing and all of her time, (after all, she has done that  her entire life).  Yet some of  us that have the opportunity to help in a little way financially, or maybe volunteer, or even clothes donations, usually offer what's leftover and unusable.

Many a pew filler, participates, worships, or volunteers when or if, they can fit it in. Their quiet time with God is thirty seconds before doze off.  They had all day/week, but He gets what's left over.

7/7/14.

Good Ethics?

The latest thing to making a comeback has been good ethics and values.  With that said, somehow it has tiptoed into all the crazy beliefs and anything goes of  relative truth,  blurred view of right and wrong and neo traditions and paradigms..
It's correct for them to do such and such, but your sin (whoever you may be.),  is played on every T.V. Channel in our nation.
 And They call the church hypocritical .  It's nothing new, the individuals trying to live a good moral life commits a sin, and everyone points their finger .
I have bad news: it doesn't matter who does wrong, it is wrong (duh). "Well who made you judge?" The same one that judged and gave Tim Tebow Hell for praying and glory, to Miley for bumping and grinding on everything on stage for your Disney kids to see.. The new ethics and morality.

 There is a spiritual battle going on inside a believer. It is difficult for everyone in one area or another. Good people, bad people... What matters is Peace with God through faith in Christ. Then living dead to this world and much alive to God!.

Good Ol' Bible says: "Woe to you that call evil good and good evil."

Investing

Investing can be risky. It most often involves a cost yet followed by a return.  I'm not speaking about the stock market. It might include everything besides the markets.

We invest our time, which is valuable . We invest our energy, love, property,  loyalty and trust. I think you get the picture.

We invest in a person, one on one. Teachers can invest in one as they invest their time and knowledge into an entire class.

Careers and position , blogging,  tweeting, calling a lonely person with your cell phone to tell them you love and  care for them.  You may write a book investing in a topic or worldview. You spent that time and energy, making an investment to; instruct, entertain or cause a revolution.

The return on any investment can be minimal to rich eternal results and rewards for you. Investing might accrue in value. We are also to add value investing in lives that might feel hopeless and unimportant or

unlovable. Plant a seed and watch it grow!

We make investment as we live for others bringing God the glory. Jesus Himself said:  "Do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moth or rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. "

Let us again go, and invest into the lives adding value to men, women, boys and girls.  Share the good news of Jesus Christ. We just might have the reward of meeting  somewhere in eternity.

Launch Out.

When the boat leaves the dock it is launched out to do what it was meant to do.
A rocket is launched into the sky.
If we are to create a business, or go into all the world and make disciples, we'll have to leave the;  dock, launch pad or Church building.
You might have scores of people coming to you.
Then, you will have to launch your; self, ministry service, day, strength, time,  making the most of every opportunity and as Jesus said to do, launch out into the deep.