[DollyCali]

FINEST PING

What is the Finest?

It is "good" people
It is "happy" people
It is "sad" people
It is "busy" people
It is "disillusioned" people
It is "hurt" people

It is You!

It is Me

Many threads here at FR are smaller & with fewer people. We here who host would like to continue to offer this sanctuary of friendship to all who wish to drop in & feel the love & comfort of friendship, honor the military, show off our pets & kids, share our joys and our heartbreaks.

So some days we will have LOTS of traffic & posts & some days very little.. that is okay.

Join us when you can & know that even we who host care despite perhaps some crazies and some complications that might exist for us too.

Pray for each other as that is the highest honor one can offer to a friend

[DollyCali]

since JohnHuang2 couldn' t be with us last week, here is a little toon to hold us over until next Thursday when he can return to us.

[The Mayor]

April 25, 2008

It's Not A Game

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READ: Mark 8:31-38

Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. —Mark 8:34

My former neighbor often talked about "the game of life," and I can understand why he did. It's part of human nature to approach life as one big game made up of a lot of little games. Competing can be fun, exciting, and stimulating.

But life is a whole lot more than a game—especially for a follower of Jesus Christ. When a believer needs to own the biggest house, drive the largest SUV, get the promotion first, and win every argument, something's terribly wrong from God's point of view. It's not right to run over people's feelings, bend or break the rules, and gloat over victories.

To approach life as one big game that you always have to win is to live in hopeless delusion and fantasy. While material possessions, professional success, and personal victories are enjoyable, they last only for this life. Then they're all left behind.

Jesus instructed His disciples to deny themselves, identify with His cross, and follow Him in self-denial, and for some that even meant death (Mark 8:34-35). He made it clear to His disciples that artificial victories in "the game of life" don't count for much. What really counts is what's done for the Lord.

If I have but Jesus, only Jesus—
Nothing else in all the world beside—
O then everything is mine in Jesus;
For my needs and more He will provide. —Olander
© 1950 Baptist Conference Press

Those who live for God are the real winners in life.

Bible in One Year: 1 Samuel 10–12; Proverbs 9:10-18

[ConorMacNessa]

Happy Friday to Finest FRiends!

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Wearing Red to support our Troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world!

[jaycee]

Thanks....your post here is so absolutely correct! It truly says it all!

[CounterCounterCulture]

Happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeeee

< /shameless self-promotion >

[Feiny]

aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww

aren’t you sweet?

big kissy