My life is a typo

1 John 1:4 And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.

My ministries have changed in recent years. These 1MM have went from religious daily duty, to when He lays them on my heart. My social media ministry evolved into excerpts, short direct examples of God’s Word in my daily life. Those that follow, see my typos, my own language, my personal way of communicating my thoughts and explanations of God’s revelations of my faith through my daily life. Many times I am able to share about personal conversations and times spent where God let’s me listen, speak, encourage or be encouraged, seeing God work through others lives in my circle. Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.My mind is slipping with age, many times not able to get the words to my lips, or even the wrong words coming from them (a funny story on stage recently comes to mind). My life is a typo, but through it I know my faith in my God come through clearly.

John was writing from the same heart in the text above. John is fighting the Gnosticism of his day, a blend of spiritual and physical, the separation of the two to justify sin, and claim a greater knowledge than those who hadn’t come to “know” God. There are many blends of religion today, many preachers talking of the blessings of heaven, without the condemnations of hell. Many teach universalism, all paths lead to god, many teach of not offending, yet denying the clear penalties of sin. 1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. Way too many people are being led astray by the false prophets of our day, preaching watered down gospels and not the righteous King who will return to judge the world of it’s sin. When Jesus returns soon, we will all bow before him and answer for all of our lives, what we did, what we didn’t do, and what we thought about the reasons why for both. Christianity is a matter of your heart, and Jesus knows the condition of it.

Do you desire to share your faith just as John? Charles Spurgeon said, “You are either a missionary, or an impostor.” One of the assurances of your salvation is the desire of your soul to share your faith. Many fear they will do it wrong, fear of not being able to answer questions, fear of what others will think, but God did not plant that fear within you. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Speak up, or write it out, but be bold in your faith. Ignore the typos and mis-spoken words you can’t find, and know God will make it perfectly clear to those he has prepared to hear.