There is a movement both toward and away from God. Some of us live in the balance between the two – it is a razor thin line that keeps us in one place never getting caught up in the gravity of God or evil. This is a safe place for the most part as long as we do not move. If we stand motionless as storefront manikins we will be ok. By ok I mean in the sense that no decisions need to be made, no moral choices need to be agonized over and no guilt need to be burning within us. It is the place of lukewarm sewage that recognizes that getting caught in the gravity of God or evil are both dangerous things although God is dangerous in the sense that He calls us out of ourselves, away from the world and into complete submission to Him and His often unknown will for our lives. Like C.S. Lewis wrote of Aslan in The Chronicles… "He is not a tame lion…". The other gravity which we can fall into is toward evil…and this is dangerous simply because it leads to death and away from God.

 

We often think of the movement toward evil or God as needing to start with some dramatic decision or sin one way or the other. The reality is the movement in either direction is paved with subtle action and thought. A series of small almost deceptively insignificant steps in one direction or another and before one knows it they find themselves either in the stratosphere moving toward God in hurtling like a meteor in flames toward death.

 

The point? Small, seemingingly insignificant decisions, thoughts and actions have eternally significant consequences and move us into the gravity of life or death.

 

"Sirs, what must I do to be saved? They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…"  – Acts 16:30-31