"Our holiest dispositions need careful watching. In the house of the Lord, Tobiah gained a lodging, in the very chamber "where aforetime they laid the meat offerings and the frankincense." Spiritual pride will find a hidingplace in our devotions, unbelief will lurk amid our self-examination, and anger will conceal itself under the skirts of our zeal. In seasons of the highest spiritual enjoyment, it behoves us to exercise double vigilance against our great enemy, who so often transforms himself into an angel of light. The sweet flowers blooming in our window attract the buzzing bees, and so do our sweet graces draw the notice of the enemy to us. Thieves waylay men known to have full purses, and pirates watch for loaded galleons."
--Charles Spurgeon, "Out with Tobiah", July 1867, Sword and Trowel.
Oh Father, how many times have we been obedient and seen you victorious, only to turn and be surprised by temptation or weakness.
Let us now learn to be vigilant ever, and so not fall into sin.
Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
Amen to that one!