What if you just brushed your front teeth? You know, left unattended anything not visible when you smiled? How would that work out?
Do we pull that same sort of stunt when we only pursue the public side of spiritual living? I think we do. It is relatively easy to attend church weekly and be kind to your neighbor and restrict your vocabulary and choose Christian friends as your social circle.
But that is not the same as giving up a half-hour of sports or comedy viewing to read your Bible or reviewing the church prayer list on some day besides Wednesday or setting cash aside systematically from within the household budget for mission giving.
If all those pearly whites which compliment your front facade rot away, how long will it be before you begin to notice? The process of losing your side and back teeth might require years. Still, I think you will determine somewhere in that process that you would have been wiser to protect your molars and incisors than to simply let them go. I hope we are as quick to note spiritual rot and react in such a way as to prevent spiritual decay.
It is not just what people see that counts.
Tim Gramly
Education Pastor
South Haven Baptist Church
Oct. 13, 2009
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