I have a good friend Dave who is a full time pilot and has been flying for some time.  A thought came into my mind the other day so I called him to find out the specifics.  I asked what happens if on your map or chart you're one degree off.  His reply was, "it depends on how far you go, the further you go the further you're away from your heading.                                                                                                                                                         

Wow!  That weighed on me for several hours.  I've always wondered that if we as Christians are getting to comfortable with the uncomfortable.  Are we as a Christian society being too relaxed with our place in this world?  Are we still bothered by the crude humor, the gossip, the way we talk to our brothers and sisters, what we watch on T.V., or the way WE drive our cars? 

I think of the verse in Song of Solomon's 2:15, "Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin our vineyards that are in bloom."  It's the little things that I allow in my life that over time creep in to only become bigger and more dangerous things.   When we get comfortable with sin, we sin more!

If we're just o.k. with the way we live our lives now, what would be o.k. fifteen years from now? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say we should be "all that" in our walk.  I often meet people that even I'm thrown off by the way they spiritualize every detail of their life.  

What I am trying to say is let's tame our tongues, let's have more of a careful eye on the things we watch, the people we hang out with.  I'm constantly asking myself when I leave a grocery store; does that clerk know that I'm a Christian, not by walking up and preaching down her throat, but simply being Jesus to her or him. 

Don't forget, when we're only a little bit off,  the longer we go that way the further we are from our destination.