Whom Are You Kidding?

Issues – March 2021 – Grace & Truth Magazine

Whom Are You Kidding?

• When a man says he cannot stay awake during a 45-minute message, but stays at home reading numerous news articles, whom is he kidding?
• When he pleads that Sunday is his only day of rest, and gets up at 5:00 AM to spend the day fishing or hunting, whom is he kidding?
• When the sports fan declares the seats in the meeting are too hard and uncomfortable but will sit for hours on bleachers in drizzling rain to watch 22 men push one another back and forth on a muddy field, whom is he kidding?
• When the penny-pincher claims he can’t afford to give much to the Lord’s work, yet lives in a comfortable home, driving an expensive car, eating well and clothing his family in the latest styles, whom is he kidding?
• When one says that he is too busy for Christian activities but spends hours watching TV or socializing with friends, whom is he kidding?

We may seek an excuse for failing to grasp life’s fleeting opportunities for spiritual blessing and service, but will our alibis have a ring of truth when we give an account before the judgment seat of Christ?

— Writer unknown, adapted from “Mountainviews,” February 1972).