While involved in one of my daily activities (Channel surfing) yesterday I noticed that the football stadiums were filled to capacity and I didn’t see a single person wearing a mask. Somewhere along the way they must have laid aside their fears to support their favorite teams. Today it will be the same for professional sports.

I was told a true story by a former overseer of the Churches of God in Arizona. He was working in Haiti as a missionary. As he and his friend were driving along a country road the Holy Spirit told him to stop the car. He did and he was directed to a house where they found a man who was bound to four corners of the bed with electrical wire.

It doesn’t take long for Satan to try throw a monkey-wrench into the well- oiled machine of the church. Everything can be going along just fine; God will be blessing; souls being saved; people rejoicing; and then BOOM; Satan puts it into someone’s mind that they have been mistreated or some attractive person slips in and says that some biblical teaching is false, etc., etc., etc.

Probably, you have read this Scripture, heard it taught, and preached over and over again. You most likely know it like the back of your hand, but do you really pay attention to the back of your hand?

Friend, it is always best to honor God in all that we say and do.  When the Holy Spirit is at work let’s reverently glorify our Lord.  If we keep our heart right, perhaps we will keep our words and actions right. Can you say amen?

Unsaved people may view our commitment to the Bible as unreasonable bigotry. A truly transformed life is hard to understand. When one no longer uses foul language; no longer goes to the places one once went to; starts going to church—regularly (even to prayer meeting) and starts telling others about the Gospel of Christ—people just don’t get it.