From today’s reading...
‘Think where you were before you fell; repent, and behave as you did at first, or else, if you will not repent, I shall come to you and take your lamp-stand from its place.’” Revelation 2:5
Since I was about 10 years old, I was taller than my mom, but whenever she went to grab that wooden cooking spoon she kept looped through the kitchen cabinet handles, I stopped what I was doing and started doing what she wanted me to do.
Spare the rod, spoil the child was alive and well in my household when I was growing up, and I’ve continued that methodology in my own home with my children, and God applies it to us.
Without God’s lamp stand, you will stumble into eternal darkness, so repent and behave as He originally made us to, which is the only way to...
Stay the course.
Keep the faith.
Endure.
Now go sell something.