Vigilance

As the Gospel story goes, this fellow sows good seed in the field and then goes to bed.  While he is sleeping, his enemy came along and sowed weeds in the same field.  Isn't this our life?  We make promises to do something good, or we actually do something good, and then rest on our great "effort."  But there is always an enemy, either our own faults, character defects, or the devil if you will.  We need vigilance.  Each day we need to check in and see how we are doing.  Take an inventory of yourself.  Yesterday's good deeds or promises, are yesterday.  We cannot sleepwalk through life.  Each morning I try and read something that will help me to focus on what is important for me to keep growing.  Otherwise, boy is there a slippery slope.