Now is Not the Time to Be Negligent

What is your driving force in life? The answer to this question has the power to dictate your thoughts, actions, and future. For Samson, strength became the impetus that led to great accomplishments, but also greater ruin. Solomon, in his pursuit for pleasure, only found emptiness and futility.

If only every young person in America could spend one day on patrol with a policeman. . . . But maybe this message by Tom Harmon will suffice. With sobering realism he warns of the consequences of one wrong choice. One drink. One thought. One wordly tune.

Both physical and spiritual growth are step by step processes. As humans we grow up physically. One day at a time, one decade at a time, the years of our life pass and we aspire to maturity. As Christians we grow up spiritually as well. But what does maturity look like in this realm?

Tom Harmon, like a modern day "centurion," has come to see the bold contrast between life lived under God's authority and life lived out from under His authority. Mouth. Money. Morals. Marriage. Do my decisions in these areas bear witness to the practical everyday control of a living Lord?