Hebrews 3:12-14
“So watch your step, friends. Make sure there’s no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as God’s still calling it Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn’t slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we’re in this with Christ for the long haul.”
“Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. You must warn each other every day, while it is still ‘today,’ so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.”
Every day God gives to live must contain vigilance. The world dulls our senses so we’re likely to trip and fall. Only in Christ can we stay alert. When young, with children, my heart yearned for him though I had little time. Now I have the time of the aged and he calls me daily. Since he is outside of time the yearning of earlier years and the devotion of today are stacked up before him as one piece. It is as if the act of today is retroactively applied to the yearning of yesterday. It his grace, keeping me sure footed and upright whatever my circumstance.