Don't drop your guard

September 12th, 2025
by John Thweatt

I was spending time thinking about the things I’ve written this week and I prayed something along these lines,

“Father, there is no place for a moral dropping of the guard. Like the guards at the unknown soldier, I must show up and never take a day, a moment, or even a second off from my pursuit of you.

Help me to remember that I must hate sin and seek to kill it with no mercy. Help me remember that while David was a man after your heart, he let his guard down, and lingered on the roof top instead of fleeing immorality.

David’s sin was ultimately due to the fact that he wasn’t on the battlefield. He stayed in the palace and didn’t go to war when the time came for the kings to go to war.

How many times do we sin because we excuse ourselves from the battle? Every single sin is a result of relaxing the firewalls of my mind. Thinking somehow that I deserve a rest.

I cannot take my hand off the plow, I cannot stop, I must not give an inch, and I must not allow even one thought or daydream access without spiritual evaluation.”

That’s the battle, that’s the thought-for-thought battle that we face. It is also the means to holiness and the way we train ourselves for godliness. Friends, fight the good fight until He calls us home!

Posted in Thought for Thought, Living in His Presence