Good morning and happy Tuesday. So, everything worked out. The trial you're going through is behind you and you've seen God do His thing. He's the one you prayed to and asked others to do the same on your behalf. Everyone has gone to relax mode because the crisis is over. The prayer hotline has cooled back down. All is good. God is good. So what changed? Why do we stop praying and giving thanks and celebrating our Lord? Why are we so quick to forget what just happened? How do we forget where we were, what we went through and, with knowing who saved the day, slip back into a place of complacency? Christians point out the EC ( Easter, Christmas ; emergency crisis )Christians all time, but are we any different when we are not acknowledging Him everyday with all we are. Love the Lord your God with all heart, with all your soul, with all your strength Deut 6:5. It's not just when it's good for us, it's all the time. All the time. I believe a lot of trials we go through are of our own making because we take a little time for ourselves and forget about God for a little while. He brings us around through a reminder of how we can not do anything apart from Him. Try as we may, we can not, as the world will have and is teaching us to believe, do this life on our own as our own. We have to lose our sense of self. That we can do it alone and without help. The fact we know God should be enough to take care of that, yet we fall down. Self reliance is futile. The world wants us to stand on that. When we do, the world, commonly known as satan, wins a battle of the souls. He's not getting mine and I hope He's not getting yours. I'm not going to fall for his trap again, yeah right. So this is a daily, hourly, by the minute, second choice for us. Stay as vigil as you did when going through the last time you fell. All the time, always. Don't let the devil win another time. In love always. <><