Lion in the Field

As adults, we get busy. Sometimes our busy schedules mean we have to delete things in our life. One thing that seems to get put on the back burner is church. We figure it is only this Sunday or it's only the one Bible study or not many people go on Sunday night it will be okay if I don't go tonight. These are things that we let ourselves believe.

Let's look at this story about a lion. This lion was hunting prey. However, the lion was scared to attack the whole group of deer, so he waited. He waited for an hour, then a day, then a month until finally a young deer strayed away from the group. The lion attacked the young deer and killed it. As the lion continued to follow the group, one by one the deers strayed from the group until he had killed the whole herd.

Hebrews 10:25 says, "not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the Day approaching." This scripture is talking about church. "Not giving up meeting together" is talking about you not giving up on church or a Bible study. "As some are in the habit of doing;" We say that it is just this week that I will miss church and the next week you are even more busy and you miss again. Then before you know it you haven't been to church in months and you start feeling like something is not right or something is missing. We need to be together as believers for "encouraging one another." Proverbs 27:17 states, "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." We are vulnerable when we are alone and isolated from other believers. We need people to help us up when we fall or become weak. God says, "all the more as you see the Day approaching." He is talking about the last days. As you look at our world today, people believe everything is good as long as it doesn't hurt me. Moral values have been thrown to the way side as the world try's to take God out of the picture.

When you start believing it is okay to miss coming together with other believers, you are starting to stray from the group. Beware! There is a lion waiting to attack!

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." ~ John 10:10