When we assume that life is less  without us
When we refuse to rouse from fallacies, drawn away
By soppy songs that fan our vanity and tease our ego
Snoring acceptance to stinking chorus that sinks ships:
With our own hands, we dig our own grave.
When we ignore warnings and scale bumps installed
To check advance, then nothing can help but fall, waiting
To awaken us, though bruised and bleeding, but alive
Estranged from fatal romance with slumber. Fall becomes
Arms of rescue, that salvage from jaws of formidable end.

Food For Thought: Being human, there are times we overestimate our abilities and capabilities. It is worse when we are in visible positions that attract the attention of those we seek to further impress. To their cheers, we become performers instead of ministers of grace and truth. We are no longer exploring to know, we explore to impress. We seek no longer to learn, we seek to show off. Our quests are redefined by where we target to be and what we pursue to possess instead of who we serve and His goal for our service. When we follow the demands, the cheers, and amusement of the crowd, we cross sacred lines like Saul did. When pleasing the crowd becomes more important to us than delighting God, we lose the fear of God that restrains from disobedience and rebellion. When we choose the glamorous rewards of serving the crowd above the simple benefits of the narrow way we are called, fall is bound to call us back to order. The fall may be in the private places of our walk with God so we learn quietly and adjust quickly. In some cases, the world is allowed to witness the public humiliation. It doesn’t say those spared are any better or worse than those who are not. God allows fall to step in as a check, a prompter, an alarm, whatever and however He chooses it to be to His children. Those who refuse to learn become schemers, working their strategies to remain relevant to the crowd they esteem even if it costs the presence of God that called them. Those who take such falls in good faith learn from their errors and change their ways. How have you taken your falls in the past? How will your attitude change going forward? Every fall may not imply you were wrong yet every fall carries lessons for tomorrow.

Scripture: The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3: 17.

Prayer: Dear Lord, I bow my heart, my knees, my desires, and my pleasures at Your feet; rule over me and over all that is mine: save us from destruction O God! Amen.