Faith Book

Have you joined yet? Do you have a Facebook account? Over the holidays, I finally gave in and created one. It seemed everywhere I turned; people were talking about their friends on Facebook. I guess I succumbed to the peer pressure. I must admit it is pretty addicting, even more so than blogging. The first few days, I spent hours searching for names of old friends I hadn’t seen in years. It was really a rush when I would find them. Seeing how much they had changed and all they had accomplished was really fun.

I began to type in the names of everyone I knew, from friends in kindergarten, to high school, to college, to my first job. I was overjoyed with each person I found. It was a letdown however when I would search and search for someone and was unable to find them. Especially when it was a person I was certain would be “into” the whole computer/technology world. I just knew there were people I should be able to find, but to no avail. They just weren’t there. I would look through the “friends” list of others, even some pages of their family members trying to find them, but couldn’t. Just because their friend or family member had a facebook account, it didn’t mean they did.

Spending all this time looking for people made me wonder what it might be like to look through Faith Book instead of Facebook. What do I mean by Faith Book you ask. Actually, I mean the Book of Life.

Revelation 20:12-15 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books… If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

If we had access to look through God’s Book of Life, I bet it would be similar to Facebook. We would find some people who had touched our lives in a special way that we hadn’t seen in ages. It would be so exciting to “see” them and know what happened in their lives. But, there would be some we would bet our last dollar (if we were the betting type) would make it – their names would be found there. But they wouldn’t. Just because we might find their friends or family members, doesn’t mean we will find them. And it will be a huge let down.

Maybe instead of spending so much computer time in the coming year looking for friends and encouraging others to join Facebook, I think I might spend more time trying to get more friends names in Faith Book. How about you?