Watch Out for Dangers!

Watch Out for Dangers!
Hebrews 12.12-17

‘It was a moment of madness.’

The politician stood shamefully before the press. He had been caught out soliciting for sexual favours in a notorious part of town. His character was in ruins, his reputation in tatters. He would not now get the senior job he had coveted. There was no way back. His only excuse was that for a moment he had taken leave of his senses. Treating that statement at face value (though many doubted it at the time), it seems that one night he had made a disastrously wrong decision and was now bitterly regretting it. Human character and reputation is like a tree; it takes decades to grow, but it can be cut down or burnt to a cinder in a matter of minutes...

Taken from Hebrews for Everyone – by Tom Wright