Reckless Living

In Chennai, India where I come from, this may not be the norm, but one can find kids who would dare to ride bicycles without brakes just for the thrill of it. What's a lot more common, and more dangerous though, is motorcyclists riding with poorly maintained brakes. These are hazardous for both the riders and others as well.  

While the above pertains to road safety, there's an even more dangerous, yet very prevalent trend in our world today - it's when one chooses to live life recklessly - with no 'brakes' on one's desires, thoughts, words and actions, resulting in consequences that are detrimental to both them and others as well.

In 2 Timothy 3:2-5, when the apostle Paul mentions the signs of the last days, he says, "People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying it's power." Notice the number of words that describe reckless living.

Let's do a self-check and ensure that not only are the 'breaks of our lives' well-tuned and well-used, thereby safe-guarding both ourselves and those around us, but that we're going even further and using the 'vehicles of our lives' to love God and love others - the one thing that spells the purpose for our existence.

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Michael Collins

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