Do you remember a rather comic character by the name of Sancho Panza in that well-known book, Don Quixote?<\/i> There is an incident in the book in which Se\u00f1or Panza clung to a window sill all night, afraid that if he let go he would plunge and die on the ground below. But when the morning light came, red-faced and near exhaustion, he found that his feet were only two inches above the grass. Fear kept him from letting go, but he could have been safe on the ground throughout the long night.<\/p>\n
I use that illustration to remind us that there are many professing Christians whose knuckles are white from blindly hanging on to their own window sill. The Lord has been saying, \u201cLook on me and let go!\u201d But they have refused.<\/p>\n
Matthew 6:25\u201334; Philippians 4:6\u20137; 1 Peter 5:7<\/p>\n
I Talk Back to the Devil,<\/i> 88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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