“Watch Yourselves”


BIBLE READING: Luke 21
DISCUSSION                                                            
                It isn’t quite April 15th yet, but many people are already doing their due diligence to get their taxes ready.  Tax day is one of those days that slowly creeps up on us, isn’t it?  We know it is coming, we even know the day that it will come.  Yet millions of people will continue to put it off until the last minute, or worse, file an extension so they can wait until October to do them.  Why do we put off what we know has to be done?  I think we get so bogged down by life that we allow ourselves to get distracted in the here and now, that we are blinded by anything that happens past today.  Our Lord warns us against allowing ourselves to get distracted by the day to day cares of this life. “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap” (Luke 21.31).  It doesn’t take a Bible scholar to figure out that Jesus isn’t talking about Tax Day.  My point is, if we find it very easy to allow ourselves to get distracted enough to postpone a day that we know is coming (specifically in 18 days), don’t you think it is more probable that we allow our lives to be distracted from a day that might not even come in our lifetime?  That is why Jesus used strong language as “watch yourselves”, because that day could come in fifty years from now, or it could come today!  Let’s make sure we don’t allow the cares of this life to distract us from being prepared to meet the Creator.


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