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Jesus looked at him and said, “So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter). --John 1:42 Don’t you just love Simon? His human flaws are so much like yours and mine. He could be impetuous and irresponsible just as surely as he could be personally engaging. But something happened in his life that changed him forever. In today’s verse, when the Scripture says that “Jesus looked at him,” it means that he looked right into his heart. Jesus saw something others could not see!  He saw “a rock,” and he even gave him a name that means just that. Now when Simon Peter’s friends heard that Jesus called him “the rock,” they must have laughed! At this point, Peter was not a portrait of reliability. He was up, then down; over-promising and under-delivering. But Jesus knew exactly who Simon Peter was. He knew the good and the bad, his strengths and his flaws. But more importantly, Jesus saw beyond what others saw to see his potential and promise. And Jesus knew that if he could capture Simon’s heart, Simon would be changed… and that he would change the world! Don’t you hunger for someone to see all your potential… to see who you were born to be?  Well, Jesus does! If you will follow him, Jesus will release your potential and use you to change your world! Let him reveal all you can be in him.   IF YOU WILL FOLLOW HIM, JESUS WILL USE YOU TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD! Angels by Jack Graham Walk through Scripture,  to reveal the truth about angels and what they offer us. Focusing on practical application, Dr. Graham separates fact from fiction and demonstrates that the main role of angels isn't to draw attention to themselves, but to point us toward Christ.

Certainty in the Scriptures

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”
1 John 5:11–13

One of the great Bible teachers and preachers of the past, G. Campbell Morgan had already enjoyed some success as a preacher by the time he was nineteen years old. But he began to read Charles Darwin and other critics of biblical truth, and his mind filled with doubt about the Bible. Finally, knowing he could not continue to preach with such doubts, he canceled his upcoming speaking engagements and put away all the books he had been reading. He went to the store and purchased a new, unmarked Bible, then sat down and began reading it—reading nothing else until He completed it from beginning to end. His doubts fled away, and He spent the rest of His life preaching the Word of God he had come to fully trust.
There are many wonderful resources available to Christians in our day, and I am thankful for every one of them. But nothing can ever take the place of the Word of God. We need to hear it preached and taught on a regular basis. We need to read it for ourselves. We should memorize it, hiding it in our hearts. We should fill our thoughts and meditations with the Bible. When we do, our faith grows and we become more like Jesus.
The only completely perfect and trustworthy tool given to us is the Bible. We can fully believe everything it says and must fully obey everything it commands.
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

Unless your life is filled with the Word of God, your faith will be weak and uncertain.