February 20, 2006
PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:12 pm
Paying Close Attention
"We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away."
Hebrews 2:1
Stuntman Bobby Leach went over Niagara Falls in a specially designed steel drum in July, 1911 and lived to tell about it. Although he suffered minor injuries, he survived because he recognized the tremendous dangers involved in the feat, and because he had done everything he could to protect himself from harm.
Several years after that incident, while skipping down the street in New Zealand, Bobby Leach slipped on an orange peeling, fell, and badly fractured his leg. He was taken to a hospital where he later died of complications from that fall. He received a greater injury walking down the street than he sustained in going over Niagara. He was not prepared for danger in what he assumed to be a safe situation.
Prayer: Ask God to help you safeguard against the dangers of temptation and sin.
"All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'"
~Amy Carmichael
"We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away."
Hebrews 2:1
Stuntman Bobby Leach went over Niagara Falls in a specially designed steel drum in July, 1911 and lived to tell about it. Although he suffered minor injuries, he survived because he recognized the tremendous dangers involved in the feat, and because he had done everything he could to protect himself from harm.
Several years after that incident, while skipping down the street in New Zealand, Bobby Leach slipped on an orange peeling, fell, and badly fractured his leg. He was taken to a hospital where he later died of complications from that fall. He received a greater injury walking down the street than he sustained in going over Niagara. He was not prepared for danger in what he assumed to be a safe situation.
Prayer: Ask God to help you safeguard against the dangers of temptation and sin.
"All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'"
~Amy Carmichael