The Prodigal One

One of things I pray for every morning is for the Lord to keep me from sinful backsliding. When we hear the word backslide, we may think about falling back into our old sin filled life. While backsliding certainly includes that, it is not necessarily limited to it. Backsliding is not just falling backward, but it is also failing to go forward spiritually. In the Christian life, there is no standing still. We all have choices no matter how far we backslide. We can let the devil pile on or, we can learn from it and get back to Jesus as quickly as possible. If we catch ourselves backsliding, we just …..

Last Tuesday evening I was heading home after work when freezing rain started. To make matters worse my defroster wasn’t working. With nowhere to pull over and park I just kept driving and praying. Almost immediately, ice would blanket the windshield forcing me to stop and scrape. I prayed, put my flashers on and would drive a little, stop and scrape. Drive a little, stop and scrape. Drive a little, stop and scrape. Over and over the same thing. While scraping I broke off both windshield wipers. That’s when I began backsliding. I traded prayers for cussing. I wasn’t mad at God for not getting me out of this mess, …..