Cheese stick or fish stick

Have you ever picked up something, thinking it was one thing but later finding out it was another? I may have shared this before but it bears repeating. I am not a fish and seafood guy; I have never been a fan of it, probably never will be. I wish I liked fish; it's supposedly really healthy. But I am just one of those folks who have never developed a taste and a desire for it. Sorry.

However, I was eating at a particular style of buffet restaurant several years ago, and came upon an item that the tag on the sneeze guard read, "Cheese Stick". I really like cheese, so, I picked one up and planned to eat it while I was completing the filling of my plate. One bite, though, let me know that what I had was not a cheese stick at all; it was a fish stick, a very fishy tasting fish stick. Sometimes, what we think we see is not what something really is.

Today's word is Revelations 3:1b, ESV, which reads, "...I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead."

The church at Sardis, whom is being talked to in today's passage, had the appearance of being a church on fire for GOD, and some, a few, of the members were. What was really going on, though, and GOD knew, was you had a few really working and striving to do His will, while the rest were lost in their sins and telling everyone that they were members of the Church of Sardis.

The same thing(s) is happening in today's church. Don't get me wrong, I am not judging, and certainly not pointing fingers; I have my own faults and failures. BUT, GOD knows the heart; He knows the ones that are trying to do His will and those that are just there to be able to say that they are there. He knows the ones that are truly His and those that want others to "think" that they are His. And, in today's passage, we are warned that He knows.

I use this passage today as a reminder to myself that I need to be doing what GOD has called me to do for one reason and one reason only - to Glorify Him and to try to let His light shine through me. I want to be found faithful. I want to be a cheese stick, not a fish stick.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T