SURE SIGNS OF BACKSLIDING

Author Unknown

1. When the way to the meeting house seems too far.
2. When the sermon seems too long.
3. When the singing comes hard and seems dreary.
4. When you see so much to dislike in your brethren.
5. When the preacher makes you mad.
6. When the members frequently say things that offend you.
7. When your reading of the Bible is dull and puts you to sleep.
8. When it frets you to be called on to give.
9. When you feel that there is no use of working with the sinners around you.
10. When you are impatient with the shortcomings of your brethren and feel you have few or none of your own.
11. When you make excuses for your sins and try to persuade yourself
that God will not punish or judge.

THEN YOU ARE NOT RIGHT WITH GOD. YOU ARE DRIFTING, BACKSLIDING, SINNING.

                                                                                                            (From: “The Old Paths,” Owensboro, KY, 1/16/05)