I.B.S. #51

Acts 2:46-47

- "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the Church daily as should be saved."

Here we see that when we have Christ as the center, when we fellowship with eachother and keep Him as our conversation or continually love eachother as He did unto us, we will want to remain in fellowship with others. Here we see that after all has passed, they go with one another, together, to the temple to eat yet while they are eating, they are still praising God and being lights to one another. It's funny how sometimes we, at least as guys, can go out together for a Bible study or a night of accountablility, and leave the place with a completely different mindset than we had going in. For example, last thursday we went to McDonald's after dinner for Ice Cream, where Elijah shared his message on... exactly, honestly I don't remember off the top of my head what he shared on exactly. It was a great message and I learned from it, I can tell you that I learned how important it is to give everything up to God, but I'm sure that was just part of his message. The first thing that just came to my mind just now about that night, was the thought, "You know, that McDonalds plays some dope music." They had a little BackStreetBoys, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Adele, and I left with Timbaland stuck in my head. All this confession to say that when we don't keep the conversation around Christ, it's easy to get off track. Now don't get me wrong, Elijah didn't plan for them to play dopesauce music, but when we go to fellowship with others, we need to check our own hearts and make sure that we keep Christ as the center, because I'm sure there was something he taught on, that I heard, but then quickly went out the other ear to make space for I Want It That Way.

Write "Be Alert" on my hand.