PASS IT ON! PLEASE!

There's a song I like that starts like this: "It only takes a spark to get a fire going, and soon all those around will warm up in its glowing.  That's how it is with God's love...".  And so, that's why I blog.  That's why I write the words that matter to me.... because willing listeners are hard to find.

The writer of Psalm 78 also wanted to pass it along.  He said, "We're not keeping this to ourselves, we're passing it along to the next generation."  And Paul said it over and over, just as he said in his second letter to the church in Thessalonica, "God picked you out at the very start...He invited you into the life of the Spirit through the message (that I first delivered)."

How quickly we want to tell our friends the best joke we just heard.  Or share our political views, no matter how converse they are to their own.  Yet we are hesitant to tell about our need and our joy in the Lord. I may choose a blog to write it, because someone else will have to choose to read it.  It is then their choice.  I do not presume upon them.  It's safer.  But...safer from what?  Being called a Christian?   My, Oh My!

Generation after generation have heard abut God, through someone or at someplace.  Yet God is the least spoken of than any other subject.  We are afraid to tell others that God is called upon, believed in, trusted, obeyed, and finally, loved.  How can we help but love Him?  We are so very loved by Him! And first and foremost, like the best of fathers, He wants us to care about Him. He waits for us to care and then to share with others our caring. And to share our joy in seeing and receiving God's love for all eternity.  All this comes to us through Christ whose death cleanses us from our natural sinfulness--selfishness and idolatry of "things."  You know--me, first and I want that!  Or am I speaking only for myself?

So, my job is to pass it on.  Maybe it's your job, too.  And that's good.  We'll both receive our wages someday from God.  A smile and a hug and "I know your name!  It's Jo, isn't it?"

Yes, God.  It's.....Jo