SPIRITUAL PATCH-UP JOBS

Patch-up jobs are sometimes necessary, but they can be ugly looking things!

I remember when the Savings and Loan where I once worked moved into a brand new building which included a lovely, new snack room with table, cupboards, and kitchen sink with running water.  One fateful day I was getting a ceramic mug out of the cupboard above the sink and accidentally dropped it.  It chipped the white enamel on the edge of the sink and left a big black spot.  The boss repaired it, but the outline of the hole was always there to remind me of my awkwardness!  Somehow it spoiled the newness of the otherwise spotless kitchen!

I won't bother giving you the details of the time I tried to patch up the spots on my dark green Maverick where the thinning paint began to show through.  Let's just say it looked as though my car had a bad case of the measles!

Too many times we are content with patch-up jobs in the natural.  And if we're not careful, we let ourselves be satisfied with patch-up jobs in spiritual matters, too!  It's so easy, especially during the Christmas season, to get so caught up in plans, shopping, festivities, etc., that we ease up on our devotional times.  We satisfy ourselves with a promise snatched out of a "Promise" box instead of really reading the Word of God.  We let our prayer life, slip, too, and just say a quick prayer now and then while on the run!  Spiritual patch-up jobs!  We may even miss a church service, or a Bible Study in order to catch up on our various activities.  Or maybe we choose to sleep in on a Sunday morning to get some badly needed rest!  More spiritual patch-up jobs!

I know you're exceptionally busy these last few days before Christmas, but take time to make a spiritual inventory of your life.  Are you settling for spiritual patch-up jobs?  I hope not!

Preacher's Kid