MORNING MANNA 2-9-24
THE DANGER OF DELAY
“For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple (innocent) concerning evil.” -Romans 16:19
The finest attractions of this world become deadly when we become overly attached to them.
A well-known author once told this story of an account he had with sea gulls: “Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks of ice flowing toward the falls, I could see that there were dead fish embedded in the ice. Gulls by the score were riding down the river feeding on the fish. As they came to the brink of the falls, their wings would go out, and they would escape from the falls.
“I watched one gull which seemed to delay and wondered when it would leave. It was engrossed in the fish, and when it finally came to the brink of the falls, out went its powerful wings. The bird flapped and flapped and even lifted the ice out of the water, and I thought it would escape. But it had delayed too long so that its claws had frozen into the ice. The weight of the ice was too great, and the gull plunged into the abyss.”
Think about it. That bird had the ability and a certain amount of time to fly away safely,yet it died due to delay. Even so it is with some people who become so attached to the things of this world that they can’t break away from it and are destroyed.
It even happens to Christians. Thus the warning in Heb.12:1” Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”.
Stop and think about the weights in your life- things that hinder from running the race set before you. When we discover the will of God we ought to do it without delay or debate. Delayed obedience is disobedience and that is dangerous. So what is it that you need to lay aside – let go of? Do it now! – HDS
PRAYER PROMPTER: We go down on our knees, or we go down to oblivion.
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, Tx.
