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Day 12

Signs... Galatians 6:7-8

for fresh cream cakes. Certainly not a sin or
nothing wrong with that until you look at my
health. I have coronary heart disease. I have
had two stents fitted already simply because
my body doesn’t deal with Cholesterol very
well. A few years ago, I ended up in hospital
on the critical list after having a particular
nasty bout of Angina. Thankfully, it was
sorted and for the most part I’m now back to
being healthy but I have been warned not to
indulge. So why do I ignore the signs when
faced with these fantastically tasting cream
cakes? It’s simple. I’m weak. Because there is
something where I am going to get an awful
lot of pleasure from, I take the chance and
ignore the danger signs.
Ok, that is a whimpish example but the
principal is the same across the board.
Mentally we outweigh the risks in our
mind and we choose to go with what makes
How does a bird know when to fly when the us happy in the moment and ignore the
air is cool in the autumn sky... I wrote that consequences. Not a good idea when we think
line for a song some years ago. The song was about it.
actually called ‘Signs’. The song was full of
those type of lines, examining why things So without harping on about the ‘ifs’ and
happen. The song was never meant to be a ‘whys’ lets remind ourselves of a few things
great mystery trying to figure out the ways of to give us a little extra strength when we are
life, it was simply a song about recognising the making those decisions. I need to remind
signs that present themselves to us. myself that God never lets us bite off more
than we can chew, (excuse the pun). In 1
But we don’t have to be that poetic to see Corinthians 10:13 Paul tells us that God
those signs. Making it very basic, the sign always provides us with a way out. This is
that we need to eat is when we get hungry, the where we need to look for the signs. Not
sign that we need to sleep is we get tired. No ignore them. For me, maybe putting my hand
rocket science there. over my heart will remind me that I have a
problem. My heart is my sign. It will require
So why is it that when we get the signs that we a little sacrifice but in the grand scheme
are about to go wrong, we ignore them? I’m of things, it’s not a big one. Another good
not talking of anything in particular here so incentive is to look at the sacrifices Jesus made
I will keep it basic. Actually, here is one of for us. Let’s learn to be true Christians.
mine. It’s not exactly the crime of the century
but something I need to avoid because of a Please look for the signs in your daily lives and
serious reason, but don’t. I am a real sucker ask yourselves, are you being shown the way?
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