'ALL-IN' WITH JESUS!

       Are you and I “all-in” with Jesus?

      I post a lot of religious content on social media. I post it on my website, Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble. I joke with Dee, my wife, almost every time I make a video. I say, “I’m going downstairs to make another unviral video.” She just smiles.

     I get very little feedback or “likes” on my posts, but I can see the number of “views”, and it usually goes up toward, or over one hundred views. The video I posted about my Amish Grandpa got over four hundred views. So I know people are at least looking at my posts. But, I think overall people are reluctant to get involved to the point of commenting or acknowledging posts that have religious content.

   Sometimes I think perhaps I am too one-minded—that people possibly think that I am too “religiously preoccupied”, a term I learned working in the mental health field to describe a person who has a mental illness, and his or her dialogue with other people is usually about religious topics. What do you think? Do you think I’m too religiously preoccupied?

     One of the blessings of living in today’s internet age is the possibility of listening to the Bible in addition to reading it. In the last week, I was listening to Jon Mohr’s reading of the epistles in the Christian Standard Bible. One thing that struck me while listening was the passion for Jesus that each of the apostles shared in their epistles.

     I don’t think it was just Mr. Mohr’s interpretation of the text, but hearing it for me made it come more alive, and it was evident more than ever before how much each apostle was “all-in” with Jesus.

     So I’m in very good company—in also being ‘all-in’ with Jesus.