If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to
fall. The temptations in your life are no
different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow
the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will
show you a way out so that you can endure.
– 1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Tony Dungy comments today saying, “We all have things that pull at us, tempt us, and distract us –
constantly. … We usually allow ourselves to be pulled, tempted, distracted …
because we believe we can handle it. … But God doesn’t ask us to walk alone. … Individuals
don’t have to walk alone on those [successful, high-performance] teams – others come alongside them and keep
them focused and encouraged.”
Busy, busy, busy. Oh
how busyness has robbed the Christian family of being a successful,
high-performance team. Everyone cares and
is genuinely concerned for one another, but no one has time to perform a single
action of service to demonstrate their love and care for one another. It is so bad that it becomes hard for a
Christian to even pray for the needs of the others in their own time, not to
mention going to that person and praying with them.
How can there be a successful, high-performance team that
doesn’t communicate with each other except to share problems. If those not injured aren’t willing to take
the time to help those injured, how will the injured ever heal? And if they do heal, will they ever put
themselves back into the battle and if they do will they ever get close to the
front line of that battle knowing they will have to heal themselves if
injured. I’d say no, they won’t.
If we are close to someone and feel the Holy Spirit leading
us to provide care or encouragement to them, and we don’t, we could be
contributing to someone’s fall. We could
be, through our actions or inaction, be providing false doctrine to
someone. It is vitally important for us
to be sensitive to those around us and show through our actions the doctrine of
Christ. I fail in this area. It is so much easier just to teach and study. I must practice what I preach.
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Those were my toes you're walking on...
Remember the Veggie Tales video on this? "I'm busy, busy dreadfully busy. You have no idea what I have to do. Busy, busy shockingly busy- much, much to busy for you."
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