Monday, July 14
Spiritually Deflated
"Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26-27
In this day of increasing gas prices, drivers are looking for every advantage. One of the most overlooked strategies is keeping tires properly inflated. A group of Carnegie Mellon University students determined that the average driver could save $432 annually (when gas is $3 per gallon) by keeping tires at the recommended pressure.*
Tires usually lose air pressure v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. If your car's engine has a problem, you notice it immediately. But you can still drive on under-inflated tires—just not very efficiently. We lose "efficiency" in the Christian life the same way tires lose air pressure: very slowly. When we finally are stopped dead in our tracks by sin or failure, it's not because of a blowout. It's because we failed to perform daily spiritual maintenance: prayer, worship, Bible study, self-denial, service, and obedience. Over months or years we can grow so spiritually inefficient that we fail to notice.
Have you checked your spiritual air pressure lately? Are you operating for the Lord at peak efficiency? Failing to perform daily maintenance can ultimately leave you stranded.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
Read-Thru-the-Bible
Song of Solomon 3:1 - 8:14
* http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050921_tire.html
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