Really Exciting News

         There was a small lake in on the outskirts of a town where we once lived where my son and I would often fish.  You could walk to it in about 10 minutes from the house.  One year, we kept track of the number of bass that we caught in that lake.  We caught 105 bass that year and only kept them if they were over 15 inches long.  What was a little bit funny about the whole thing is that we took only one artificial lure to the lake, or large pond, to put on the end of our lines.  We did have a couple of spares with us, but it was the same lure and the fish in that pond seemed to be attracted to it all through the summer.  It was exciting, but not to the point that we had this great desire to broadcast it to the world. It was just exciting to us that the purple plastic Mann's jelly worm did the trick.  There are other exciting things in life that  are so important and so valuable, that you have this desire to tell someone about them to the point that they get just as excited as you did.   Second Timothy 2:2 says, "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also."   
        This verse of scripture tells about the excitement that the Apostle Paul had over the message of the Gospel.  When you look at the verse, you can see four generations of believers mentioned in the single phrase.  Paul was teaching timothy who was to teach faithful men who were to teach others.  It was so exciting that Paul had to get the excitement passed on to Timothy who then had to get the faithful men excited to the same amount who were then to give that same message to others.  That's four generations of believers.  How excited are you over the message of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ?  When people are alone, or hurt or feeling unloved, how do you respond?  Do you just say, "Well, hang in there!"  Do you say, "Better luck next time."  Or, do you say something about the blessed gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ?  Do you tell them about the good news that so excited you that you can't contain yourself and are excited to tell them about it.  There are many believers who are rather "blah" about their faith and could care less if anyone else got excited about it.  What happens in that case is the people that they come in contact with are just as blah as they are in the end.  Maybe we would get excited if we had been in the group of women that walked to the tomb on that first Sunday morning to find it empty and the Savior of the world resurrected as He said He would be.  Maybe you would get excited if you were standing on the Mount of Olives forty days later and actually see the Lord Jesus Christ ascend up into heaven.  Are you that excited?  You should be because He said that He is coming again.  Praise god today for the excitement about the Gospel message.