Keep Your Eyes on the Road!

Anyone who has been driving for any length of time has had it happen. You're driving along and you take your eyes off the road for just a second...maybe to adjust the volume on the radio or the snag a piece of gum - or you reach to get your coffee out of the cup holder. You look up and the car in front of you has stopped! Maybe you swerved just in time or maybe you were going slow enough and were able to stop. Maybe they got out of your way just in time. Or maybe, as happened to me once (remember my '90 Crown Vic?), you sailed helplessly into their trunk and wound up dazed, amazed and smelling air bag smoke. Some things happen very quickly. Now imagine that there are people out there that drive along watching in their rear-view mirror, waiting for the driver behind them to take his eyes off the road and as soon he does, they slam on their brakes! That would be awful! But do you realize that your enemy, the devil...Satan...old Slew Foot does exactly that? Oh, he really does. The day you accepted Jesus Christ into your heart, several things happened. First, you were changed in the twinkling of an eye...forgiven, redeemed, made clean. The old is gone and the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then, the angels in heaven rejoiced (Luke 15:10) as your name was written into the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 21:27). And...the enemy took note. And why wouldn't he? In essence, you just thumbed your nose at him. You rejected him. Now, as you rest in the shadow of His wings, you are 'safe and secure from all alarm' and your enemy will just write you off and move on, right? Wrong. My Bible tells me that he (the enemy) prowls like a lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). My Bible also tells me to watch and be sober (1 Thessalonians 5:6)...vigilant. We aren't merely encouraged to stay strong. We are TOLD to stay strong. Why does the Bible tell us to 'not forsake the fellowship of the brethren'? Why does Paul tell us to train as an athlete trains (1 Corinthians 9:25-27) and to remain steadfast in His Word (Hebrews 2:1-3)? Why are we instructed to 'pray without ceasing' (1 Thessalonians 5:17)? Because that's how we stay strong. That's how we deflect the 'fiery darts' that are sure to come (Ephesians 6:16). So many of us slack off. Slowly the fire ebbs. We become haphazard in church attendance. "I can worship and read my bible at home," we say. "I watch the 700 Club so I'm okay." We don't realize that, slowly but surely, we are getting weak. And then, when you least expect it...brake lights! "But I just took my eyes off the road for a second." Believe me...sometimes that's all it takes.

See how easy setting up a blog can be? I don't know why everybody doesn't have one. Oh, wait...you have to have something worthwhile to say! Ha!