Don't
Get
Sidetracked
Scripture
Proverbs
4
Observation
One
of the things about getting old is that it is so easy to get
sidetracked.
I
can walk out to the garage to do something, then something catches
my eye that needed attention so I start messing with it and then I
totally forget to do what I went out to the garage to do.
Or
worse yet, I might walk out to the garage, or might walk from one end
of the house to the other and totally forget why I made the trip. Of
course, the latter is just be absent minded and not getting
sidetracked!
Men,
Satan wants to get you sidetracked. He doesn't want you and I to
finish well. We have so many examples of men in the Bible who did not
finish well.
As
I have heard my good friend, James Hartley, say several times as he
has had the opportunity to challenge groups of Christian men, “Men,
we tend to be poor finishers. We need to finish well.”
Right
now I am watching some people who started out well in their Christian
walk, but they have now gotten sidetracked. They were growing in
Christ, their marriages were doing great, they were enthusiastically
serving the Lord, but then they got sidetracked, now things are not
good at all, in fact, they are miserable.
All
you and I have to do is to look a few verses above verse 27 in
Proverbs 4 to find the answer to how to keep from being
“sidetracked”. The answer is found in Proverbs 4:23 “Guard
your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your
life.”
Lets
guard our hearts! Our enemy, Satan, wants to get us sidetracked and
he wants to keep us sidetracked!
Maybe
you need to repent, asking God to forgive you. Maybe you need to get
back on “track” to putting God first, others second and serving
Him.
Application
I
will guard my heart so I finish well.
How
about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, help me to finish well. At the end of my life, when I stand
before you I want you to be able to say to me, “Well done my good
and faithful servant”. I pray for the men that I know. Help them to
lead godly lives. Help them to be men of integrity. Help them to be
the best husbands and the best dads. Don't let them get sidetracked.
I
pray for a couple of guys right now who have been sidetracked and who
are living lives that are contradictory to the message of Christ give
these men the courage and the humility to repent. Help them to get
back on track in their Christian walk. I pray for their wives as they
live with these men that have been sidetracked in their Christian
walk. Give these women the strength to hold on until their husbands
get back on track and are back, once again, serving you.
Daily
Bible Reading: Job 26,27; Mark 15,16; I added: Psalm 4, Psalm 34,
Proverbs 4
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