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Walking, Standing and Sitting

 Good morning! Happy Saturday! It is already beautiful outside and I am excited to get to do a Family day today. We are St. Louis bound after while. I had some real heart to hearts with myself this week and realized I had let some backsliding come into my health life, so I decided to do a devotional on just that.

Today, we are going to look at Psalm 1:1.

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.

Highlight= walk, stand and sit. Explain= this is a progression, it isn't about people, it is about patterns. When you walk, you start doing something, when you stand, you linger in it and when you sit, it becomes part of who you are. This is not sudden failure, it is slow drift and it is harder to notice. Apply= This week I realized that snacking had become a serious problem in my life. I was letting a couple snacks fit in my workday and here lately, it seems like I was nibbling stuff every evening. I didn't just say one day, Oh, today, I am going to go from zero snacks to, lets say, 5. It happened a little bit at a time and let me tell you how badly it was hurting me. One day of not snacking took me down 4.7 lbs. Now, I know that wasn't all "real weight" but it also means that late night snacking was keeping me from being the best weight the next day, and I feel like some of it was real weight. That was after 1 day of not snacking. All sin is like that. People make fun of me because I have a hard time even cashing in lottery tickets if someone gives me one. I actually have a dollar one someplace from Christmas right now, but I don't want to go down that road. There is an old southern gospel song that says Don't let the devil ride, if you let the devil ride, he will want to drive. Don't let him drive your car, if you let him driver your car, he'll surely go too far. We had a pastor one time that kinda paraphrased this and reminded us that he would go too far and stay longer than you want to stay. Lesson learned. Respond= Lord, help me as I go through this week. Guard my steps, with my life, my eating, my work habits, my personal habits. Help me not start walking down a wrong path, and definitely don't let me stand or sit in sin. Show me where I am going wrong and push me back in the right path. In Jesus' name, Amen

I feel this is short today, but powerful to what I needed to say. Watch what you are doing, where you are going and how you are behaving.

O be careful little eyes what you see

Oh be careful little ears what you hear

O be careful little tongue what you say

Oh be careful little hands what you do

Oh be careful little feet where you go. 


Have a great weekend and great next week!


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