Dr. J Vernon McGhee said in his broadcast called, “Thru the Bible”, that a mother was downstairs while her daughter was upstairs in the bedroom asleep when she heard a thump. The little girl had fallen out of bed. The mother yelled up, “What is going on up there?” The daughter said, “I fell out of bed.” The mother said, “How did you happen to do that?” The daughter said, “I think I stayed to close to the place where I got in.”
I do have a few friends who began their Christian journey around the same time I did but after about 6 months they disappeared and I have not heard from them sense then. Some of them were in the same church that I was in. I do wonder what happened to them. It is certain that we are not meant to remain to close to the place that we started, but to move on towards maturity. Hebrews 6:1 encourages to move on toward maturity. It says:
1Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God…
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I always appreciate it when the messages that you share rare, but relatable at the same time. On Saturday mornings I deliberately listen to old school music, that while it was secular, a lot of times the music has inspiration tied into the root. I recently started a little list of love songs that we sing to one another that we should be singing to God.
The point of my response is right there with your theme of the child who fell out of the bed because she stayed too close to where she got in. Yes, many of us are at church. Many of us are in church. The real question is how many of us are meeting the Master without it being an emergency. I reaches out to us each day. He has never broken his promises. One of the songs is “YOU ARE EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS YOU! I only want to sing that God and the gift of his son that he gave to all of us.
Powerful and timely message.
Carrington R. Smith
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Thanks for your kind and thoughtful comments. I just finished running in the marathon this morning so I am catching up. Yes. There are great messages in lots of secular music. They often focussed on love and also, looking at women as treasures rather than sex objects, they way much of music is today. Also, I know it is true that God is my everything. Great thought.
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