Mark 13:33
“Be on guard! Be alert!
You do not know when that time will come.”
Carelessness
I heard an amazing statistic.
In one recent year as people went through the check points at the nation’s airports they took their change from their pocket and put it in a bowl. After they passed through the scanners, they got their change and all other items back.
Here is the shocking part: More than $400,000 was left at the checkpoints in the airport. People did not leave it as a tip. They did not leave it on purpose. People just carelessly leave it. Hearing this got me to thinking about how many things we all carelessly lose.
Some people are careless with their health and lose it. Nobody ever sets out to get unhealthy. They just don’t pay attention and then one day are surprised to find they are not healthy. Some lose their families. They did not see it coming, but years of neglect of family and then their family is gone. If they are not gone physically, they are gone emotionally. They are simply no longer connected.
Some people are careless with their faith and lose it. As Matthew 13:22 says, “The worries of life” grow up around their lives and choke out faith. One must pay attention to the important things or the urgent things of this life will swallow them up.
Be careful with the things that are important. $400,000 is chump change compared to the important things that we carelessly lose.
Lonnie Davis