"Look straight ahead and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet: stay on the safe path. Don't get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil" Proverbs 4:25-27
Remember playing "Tag" when you were a kid?
Remember running for "base" when someone was about to tag you!
Remember that they could not get you if you were protected by touching base?
Well, Proverbs 4 reminds me of that game of tag. As long as you stayed close to base, you were safe and no one could tag you out. However, if you got distracted and didn't pay attention, you found yourself sitting on he sidelines watching everyone else still playing.
Satan knows how to distract you. He has had thousands of years of practice. He knows what bait will turn your head. And to make it worse, James says we are drawn into temptation by our own desires. So we are walking through a mine field and our spiritual health depends on up keeping our eyes only on things that delight God.
So my question for today is, "When you look down at your toes, where are they taking you? Somewhere that makes God smile or somewhere that makes God cringe?"
Pastor Shane
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