1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 (NLT)...

FROM TODAY'S READING (2/11/2015)...

​One year, Pastor George Sweeting visited Niagara Falls to see the amazing work of God. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As the large blocks of ice flowed toward the falls, one could see that there were carcasses of dead fish embedded in the ice. Sea gulls by the dozens were riding down the river feeding on the fish. As they came to the brink of the edge, their wings would go out, and they would escape from the falls.

One gull seemed to delay and it was curious to see when it would leave. The gull was engrossed in the carcass of a fish, and when it finally came to the brink of the falls, out went its powerful wings. The bird flapped and flapped and even lifted the ice out of the water, and it seemed like it would escape. But it had delayed too long, and its claws had frozen into the ice. The weight of the ice was too great, and the gull plunged into the abyss. 

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1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 (NLT) For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night. So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded. Night is the time when people sleep and drinkers get drunk. But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation.