Moving Targets
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. —Lamentations 3:22–23
We must keep moving, because if we stop, we are in danger.
Anyone who has ever gone hunting knows it is a lot more difficult to hit a moving target than it is to pick off a sitting duck. And it is a lot more difficult for the devil to hit a moving Christian than it is to hit an idle one . . . one who is stagnating . . . one who is in cruise control . . . one who is no longer progressing as he or she ought to.
I'm not suggesting that we should all become "Busy", but the believer who is seeking to gain ground, the believer who is seeking to become more like Christ, the believer who is not satisfied with what God has done in the past, but wants more of the Lord each and every day, that believer is a much more difficult target for the devil to hit. So we must continue on in this race of life.
Let’s not be satisfied to live on what God has already done or to merely focus on what has happened in the past. Remember that Jesus said we are to take up the cross daily and follow Him (see Luke 9:23) Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.. The Bible tells us that His mercies are new every morning (see Lamentations 3:22–23). And Psalm 1 tells us that the wise man continues in the Word of God day and night. We must be constantly moving forward. Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
We must keep moving, because if we stop, we are in danger.
Anyone who has ever gone hunting knows it is a lot more difficult to hit a moving target than it is to pick off a sitting duck. And it is a lot more difficult for the devil to hit a moving Christian than it is to hit an idle one . . . one who is stagnating . . . one who is in cruise control . . . one who is no longer progressing as he or she ought to.
I'm not suggesting that we should all become "Busy", but the believer who is seeking to gain ground, the believer who is seeking to become more like Christ, the believer who is not satisfied with what God has done in the past, but wants more of the Lord each and every day, that believer is a much more difficult target for the devil to hit. So we must continue on in this race of life.
Let’s not be satisfied to live on what God has already done or to merely focus on what has happened in the past. Remember that Jesus said we are to take up the cross daily and follow Him (see Luke 9:23) Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.. The Bible tells us that His mercies are new every morning (see Lamentations 3:22–23). And Psalm 1 tells us that the wise man continues in the Word of God day and night. We must be constantly moving forward. Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
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