Take your daily....warning!

Can you remember as a kid tiring of warnings?   Sure you can.

The earliest I can remember is, "Look both ways before you cross the street."  I remember my grandmother saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and then I understood that years later when I figured out the difference between "ounce" and "pound." 

Later, when the government insisted, "Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that cigarettes are dangerous to your health," I determined never to light up.   A few years ago, walking through the Munich airport, I discovered Europe was less subtle.  "Tobacco kills" was on the lighted sign next to a pack of smokes.

What warnings ring in your head, from your childhood, or military training, or...?

Here's one I read in the Scriptures.  You must warn each other every day, while it is still "today," so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God (Hebrews 3:13).  

Or, "The Holy Spirit has determined that deceiving and hardening sin is dangerous to your spiritual future."

Sin is incredibly attractive, and deceivingly deadly.  It gets packaged brightly and marketed smartly.  And when we buy it and use it, we are both self-deceived about its benefit, and all-the-more hardened (or desensitized) to God.  

I find that sin has that impact in my life, and I am surprised by how many Christians ignore the warning.  Yet the writer to the Hebrew Christians insists, Take a daily...warning.  Warn each other day after day about the deceitfulness and hardening of sin.   Even Christians, this NT book says, can become evil, unbelieving, and turn away from the living God (cf. 3:12).

Do you have fellow Christians around you who are in the daily habit of appropriately warning one another about the liabilities and pitfalls of sin?

Perhaps we should.   No, not perhaps.

We should.

Let's start a daily warning movement, so we can keep our ears tuned to the daily voice of God (cf. 3:15).