NEW DELIVERY

Good Sunday morning! What a beautiful morning! The weather is finally turning hotter and feeling like summer. If any of my readers know anything about the weather here in New Bern, NC, it is always changing. When my husband and I were first married, and I came here to live (my husband is from this area), the pastor of our church told me that if I didn't like the weather at the time, just wait, it'll change again soon.
We had to break down and buy a new refrigerator yesterday. It's funny, I didn't realize that our old one wasn't cooling or freezing like it should until our milk kept going sour and the popscicles in our freezer kept getting mushy. And let me tell you, opening up a mushy popscicle is not the neatest experience in the world.
I am so thankful to the Lord that we had the money to buy one! Then, it was on sale for 10% off.
You know, in our 14 1/2 years of marriage, I never had a brand new refrigerator. Now, I am certainly not complaining! We have lived in two houses, and both houses already had an old, but well working refrigerator. I am also a big fan of thrift and second hand stores. As long as my appliances work, I don't care how old they are.
This experience with our refrigerator kind of made me think of the Christian Life. Just as we did not know that slowly but surely the refrigerator had stopped cooling like it should (until I had to throw away two half gallons of milk), we as Christians, if we are not careful, can slowly start to fall away from our Lord and Saviour.
Sometimes, it is simply a hobby or activity that starts to take up more and more of our time. We start having more time for that then even our morning devotions. Or, it might start keeping us out of church on Sundays and Prayer Meeting Night.
There might be a sin that, at first didn't seem very harmful (all sin is harmful and wrong), but has slowly taken over your life.
Someone once told me that if you put a frog in a pot of cold water, and slowly bring it to a boil, he won't realize the danger until it's too late. That's kind of like sin or that particular activity or hobby. We don't realize how much it has taken over our lives or our time with the Lord, until nothing seems to be going right in our lives. The Lord may be trying to get your attention, trying to bring you back to Him.
I think that we all need to take inventory of our lives and see what is keeping us from a closer walk with our Lord and Saviour. Pray about it today!
Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday!
Beth :-)