Hello, Thievery!

Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don't wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief. Revelation 3:3

A person parks the car, gets out, and leaves his cell phone in the console. He decides not to lock the vehicle because he will only be in the salon for a little while and no one would steal his older model cell phone anyway. As he walks out with his freshly cut hair, he stops at the stunning revelation that his entire car is gone! Hello, thievery! 

Unexpected is the word of the day when the thief strikes in the time we let our guard sleep just a little bit. And this is our Lord we are reading about here! Why would He sneak up on us as a thief does at night? No sneakiness involved of course, only a sleepiness on the part of those who should be standing watch. 

So, therefore we Christians must work up a rotating guard schedule to make sure we do not all sleep at night, or get caught celebrating together at Christmas, or... wait a minute! The Lord was warning us of spiritual sleepiness; of relaxing in grace to the point that our morals slip-slide away back down to the pit from which our Savior raised us up as a newly reborn child of Christ the King. Backsliding is a spiritually sleepy way to fail away from Him! 

Love in Christ the King,
Bucky