Cowardly Thing

When I was in school I usually ended up cramming for tests. I would want until the last minute to finish deadlines and to turn in reports. If I am not careful I can treat my own spiritual life the same way. How many of us wait until a crisis to start praying? Or we go weeks without reading the scriptures and then try to read a whole book in one sitting on a Sunday afternoon (in between the Falcons game of course!) In speaking to a large crowds Jesus says, "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it" (Luke 14:28)? What if you decided to build a house and the contractor showed up without any drawings and said we were going to wing it as we go? Yeah that will be fun (and costly)! Laziness means more work. C.S. Lewis says, "The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing." The Christian life takes preparation. It takes planning. It takes centering our lives on Jesus. It takes stepping back DAILY from the demands of the world to re-position ourselves, re-center ourselves, and to re-gain our grip on the life we have been called to live in Christ.