"Hit Share If You Love Jesus"

    We live in an age of miraculous opportunities.  In just a few minutes I was able to assure myself of a place in Heaven for eternity and know that God is going to send a blessing my way in the next twenty minutes.  All I had to do was hit the like and share buttons on facebook.  Oh, the wonders of social media.  We have an opportunity like never before to make our voice known to those around us.  In reading the many post that I see from day to day there is an occurrence that I have never understood.  A person will post something spiritual in nature talking about their relationship with God, his love and care that is found in him.  Then their next post, sometimes within just minutes of their previous post, will be filled with profanity talking about what activity they have been involved in or how they are going to get pay back to someone that has done them wrong.  These things do not go together. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh (James 3:10-12).  Even those of this world would never believe us if we were to say that we loved them and then turned around and talked about them in a lack of love manner.   Our relationship with the Heavenly Father must be more than just something that we post on a web site for others to see.  We must be consistent in the way that we conduct ourselves if we are going to be a true representation of the Father to other.  As a child, my mother would occasionally serve us liver for supper.  I would leave it for last then stuff it in my mouth, leave the table go outside and spit it in the flower bed by the back door.  No one would look at my actions and ever believe that I liked liver.  In the same manner, no one is going to believe I love God or have a relationship with him if what they see is me spewing his name out of my mouth with profanity and living a life that is in contradiction to the things that my Father holds as living righteously.  Let us take care to live what we profess.  If I cannot take a firm stand in my relationship with God then my entire life is unstable.  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways (James 1:8).