To “be careful” means literally to walk accurately or precisely. The King James uses the old word “circumspectly.” It has the idea of walking on a narrow path along the side of a steep mountain. Keep your eyes open lest you take a wrong step and plunge to your death.
Sometimes we are guilty of living too fast. We make too many snap judgments, too many hasty decisions, we speak too fast, we move too fast, we react too fast, we answer before we hear the question, we just keep on pressing the throttle of life forward because we’ve got too much on our plate and we dare not slow down. It’s even possible in the name of God to go too fast. We want to right the wrongs of the world too fast. We try to win the world too fast. Because we speak too quickly, our words are hasty and ill-timed. We go before we’re ready, speak before we have anything to say, teach before we’re taught, and build high before we build deep.
What happens when you hurry, hurry, hurry? You don’t watch where you’re going and you trip and fall. Most often we trip not in headlong pursuit of evil but in our headlong pursuit of good.
The answer lies not in buying a planner or getting organized, but in the words of the Psalmist. :
Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God.”
When we slow down enough to get God involved, we discover that He can do more through us than we can ever accomplish on our own. Remember there are 365 new days ahead if the Lord allows. Take them one step at a time and watch where you step.
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