Playing Dead

My parents have a dog named Frodo. We call him the dog from "hell". He was tied up around a very big tree in the back yard one time when one of there chickens tried to play tag with him. This particular time the chicken was running around the tree and came a little to close to Frodo. With a giant leap and open jaw Frodo took one bite, the chicken went up in the air and fell several feet away from Frodo. He was one dead chicken. Or they thought.....my father came towards the chicken with an axe and right before the axe came down, you guessed it....up hopped one very anxious chicken and ran as fast as he could!!

This is a funny story, but think about it. We are like that chicken running around dangerous things in life until we get caught, whether it is our physical, mental or spiritual well being. We play with "fire" or with "frodo" then we give up, play dead, until someone comes along with the axe and wants to break our spirit or "axe our head off". We don't have to live like this. As Max Lucado's title of his book reads, "EveryDay Deserves A Chance". If you messed up in a certain area of your life today, you have tomorrow to begin again. It is when we play dead for too long that our resolve will be broken down and we will begin to believe that we are not capable of being the person that God created us to be.

Remember, don't ever give up. If you didn't exercise yesterday, do it today. Don't let anyone break your spirit. Don't let anyone leave you for dead and most importantly, don't give Satan a stronghold in your life.