Don’t Fall Out

When a mother asked her child how he’d fallen out of bed, he replied, “I guess I stayed too close to where I got in.”

When we Christians fail to grow in prayer and discernment, knowledge and understanding of Scripture, generosity and other fruits of the Spirit, it’s as if we’re balancing precariously at the edge of the bed. It’s quite easy to fall out — out of faith, out of church, out of active fellowship with God.

A good practice — for sleeping and for our Christian faith — is to be careful not to stay too close to where we got in!

 …and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8 NRSV)