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Thursday,
November 5, 2009
Distracted Driving
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith,
not by sight:) (KJV)
One of the biggest road hazards and
problems that have arisen lately is distracted driving, people that are
headed in the right direction but then get distracted and end up in a
wreck. One of the biggest causes of these casualties is a result of text
messaging; where a person is going down the road and then gets distracted.
A simple line of communication which was meant for good gets cut off and ends
up with bad results. Sound familiar? Yeah, basically what happens to a lot
of well intentioned Christians who begin their walk in the Spirit is that
they get distracted by a text from the enemy and end up in a wreck.
Galatians 5:7-9 Ye did run well; who did
hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This persuasion cometh
not of him that calleth you. (9) A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. (KJV)
You know, like with many young teenagers,
they get their license to drive, they save their money for a vehicle, and
then picture themselves on a freeway moving forward in life. All it takes
though is one distraction, something to get a person looking away from the
faith, and boom, they end up in a wreck Spiritually and for some even
death. Sad to see so many young people that had so much potential in their
lives, just starting to grow and mature, to suddenly have it all taken away
so quickly. Are you walking by faith today and not by sight, the outward
man that takes away from the new inward creation in Christ?
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at
the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal. (KJV)
When learning to drive, one of the first
things they teach is to keep your eyes on the road and don’t become
distracted. As Christians, it’s not the things that are seen that we should
be now looking for; it’s the unseen realm we need to look and focus on in
order to see the path our Lord has for us to walk on. If you keep the eyes
of your understanding open to the truth then those unseen devices and
detours of the enemy will not impede your path. However, for those that
become blind to the realm of the Spirit, just like with distracted drivers,
it’s the unseen things that they end up hitting and getting maimed by.
Galatians 3:1-3 O foolish Galatians, who
hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes
Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (2) This
only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith? (3) Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (KJV)
Oh you found a short cut did you? The Bible
is quite specific in the fact that we are saved by grace through faith and
not of ourselves. So the path you were following that was ordained by the
Lord is nowhere in sight because now you’re stuck in a ditch with a bunch
of blind people.
Mark 4:18-20 And these are they which are
sown among thorns; such as hear the word, (19) And the cares of this world,
and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in,
choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. (20) And these are they which
are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring
forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. (KJV)
In conclusion today, we see there is a
big difference between those that walk by faith and make it to their
intended destination, and those that get distracted by text messages from
the enemy. It’s one thing to get the text, it’s quite another to give ear
to the message and allow yourself to be distracted from the path of life.
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