Doses of Faith

     How great is your burden for your neighbor, co-worker, family, and all people who have not received salvation?  As I look at Paul's life and his letters in the gospel, I want to be more like Paul.  I don't want lip service but action.  I don't want to lifted up by the glory of the world but to be simply a humble servant.  I remind myself daily, "It isn't about me so overlook their ways and be an example of love and grace."  I don't want to be lifted up because I lack so much.  I have the same desire as Paul for those without salvation, but I lack the confidence to share.  My burden grows, but how do I make a difference?     "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.  This sorrow is so great that I could wish myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." (Romans 9:1...

     There is a battle raging in each of us.  We make choices and what leads to those choices?  Paul wrote, "I am carnal, sold under sin."  Don't fool yourself, you and I are also of the flesh with temptations at every turn in life.  Each of us has a battle within us with righteousness or sin.  It is a battle of the flesh against the Spirit.      "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  O wretched man that I am!  Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Romans 7:23,24)      Yes, it is a battle!  It is a mental battle which can wreck your life or save your life.  Our minds and the state of our minds control our decisions.  Have you watched CNN or NBC?  Many anchors have let their hate over power their judgment resulting in news becoming about destroying our president or even...

"Was he a Christian?" Grandson asks. "Is he a Christian?"  Grandson asks.      In a day with one of my grandsons, I get asked these questions.  My answer is "I don't know."  Why?  Because, I don't know.  I told my grandson, "Only God knows what is in the heart, and I'm not the one to judge."  I still mourn for those who die lost, but I know that it is my responsibility to ask, "Are you a Christian?"  So, I tell my concerned grandson, "We have to ask the person."      Jesus had said to Martha in John 11:25,26: "I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.  And, whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.  Do you believe?"      Martha replied, "Yes, I believe that you are the Christ."      Jesus asked.  Yes, he knew the answer, but he asked.  It is a decision for each individual.  I can't judge, beca...