"Control yourselves and be careful! The devil is your enemy, and he goes around like a roaring lion looking for someone to attack and eat." 1 Peter 5:8

Have you ever been called an ostrich or someone with an ostrich mentality?

A story is told of two friends walking through a jungle when they happen upon a sleeping lion. For reasons unknown one of the boys’ picks up a nearby broken branch and hurls it at the lion, catching it right on the nose. Enraged the lion angrily startles awake and quickly fixes its eyes on the cause of his disturbance before bounding towards them. Quick as a flash, the boy who threw the stone, in a wild panic starts to run to safety or at least in the opposite direction. Aware that he cannot hear his friends’ footsteps he momentarily turns and sees his companion stood rooted to the same spot.

“Run before the lion devours you!”

“Why should I?” The boy responds indignantly, “I didn’t throw it!”

Ostrich mentality. This comes from the myth that the Ostrich believes that if it can’t see, then it cannot be seen, literally burying their heads in the sand. Believing that you don’t have a sin problem because you are not religious is like burying your head in the sand. Or worse still, knowing who Jesus is but failing to get to know him because you think that your casual relationship will give you the nod when he returns is like… burying your head in the sand.

The enemy of the soul is a real person; he will attack you and take your life if you do not fortify yourself daily with Christ.

Somebody once said a day without Christ is a day wasted. Is that true for your life?

Kelly Willard sings 'Where could I go from your spirit.' Click on the picture to listen.