IN OR OUT

IN OR OUT
When I was a young man, recently graduated from High School, I was working on a farm northeast of Notus, ID., earning $40.00 a month plus board and room (a tent house).
I had spent a day or more cultivating a field of onions with a horse drawn cultivator. As I was returning to the barn after the job was finished, I watched the rows as I passed them. They looked so clean and neat-- until. Until, that is, I spotted a green spot in the middle of one of the rows, about a hundred feet from the end.
I stopped to investigate, and found a young tumble weed still growing. A small portion of the root system was still attached to the ground-- enough to keep the weed alive. A little water coming down the furrow would have revived it completely.
I remember thinking at the time that this was sort of like our walk with the Lord. We cannot live in two worlds at the same time. We must make a clean break with what we were before, or there will come a time when it will be revived, and our former way of life will overcome our new way of life.
If we are to be successful in our Christian life, there are some decisions that have to be made. We cannot "halt" between two ways of life. No one will make our choice for us-- it is ours to make. Some choices are tough to make.
There are some issues that have to be settled in our lives. The door to our former life must be closed-- forever.
Lot's wife was physically out of Sodom. Spiritually, she was still in bondage to the things of this life.
Our minds have to be made up. If we allow ourselves to "hanker" after the life we came out of, it is just a matter of time until we are back in it.
Some of our bridges have to be burned behind us.
The old life must be left behind-- forever.
The Bible tells us to "Set your affection on things above." We have been given the ability to do just that. If we neglect to do it, we are headed for Spiritual disaster.
"Choose ye this day."