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ONE THING YOU LACK

A story is recorded in three of the Gospels in which a man came to Jesus and asked Him, “What good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” (Matthew 19:16).   To this man, the question was all about doing good things to obtain salvation.  He was obviously very proficient at doing good things already because, when Jesus told Him to keep the commandments, and spelled them out for him, this man said that he had kept them all since he was a child.  For all his good works, however, he still was in doubt about the condition of his soul.   Many folks today have placed their hopes for Eternity in the quality and quantity of “good things” that they have done in their lives.   Sadly, many who confess Christianity fall into the same trap.   They have been churched all their lives, and tried to keep the commandments, and perhaps been quite successful, and yet they feel an emptiness in their soul.   They know in their hearts that there is something mor...
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MAGNIFY THE LORD

"O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together." (Psalms 34:3).   I remember being very curious as a boy - I guess most boys are.   There was no end to my exploring, examining, and dismantling anything and everything.   One of my best memories, though, was when my parents bought me a microscope one Christmas.   There was very little that escaped being placed on a slide and smashed under a cover slip so that I could peer at it.   It opened a brand-new world to me.   Things that were commonplace and familiar became exotic and alien when zoomed in at high magnification.   The intelligent design, and intricate construction, of even a blade of grass, or a human skin cell, turned the mundane into the divine.   Years later, when I was introduced to the verse above, it made perfect sense to me.   As we go through our life, there are many things that confront us that seem very large to us.   Even the simplest of difficul...
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LAUNCH OUT!

We read in the fifth chapter of St. Luke about Jesus preaching the Word of God by Lake Gennesaret.   Because of the press of people, He entered into a fishing boat and taught the multitude from there.   As He finished speaking, He told Simon Peter, the fisherman who owned the ship, to launch out into the deep part of the lake and let down his nets.   Right away Simon Peter began to protest, but gave in to the request saying, “Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the net.”                Just like these fishermen, it sometimes seems like our best efforts to do the will of God and to win souls to Christ just seem to come up empty.   Many churches put together evangelistic campaigns, and special revival services, and even door-to-door initiatives; but for all their labor, very few souls are touched.   The key element that is of...
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