Wrestling with a bar of hotel soap inside an unusually sturdy plastic wrapper ended in me losing! For three consecutive days, I tore at the wrapper unable to open it. Each time the result was the same - soap and wrapper destroyed. Finally, I put on my glasses and carefully examined the wrapper. I found a small slit with the word "open."

Unread cell phone, digital camera and computer instructions litter my office drawers. Too busy and too impatient, I fumble through my life teetering just on the edge of mastering the technology. And when I have finally mastered it, the technology is out of date!

At times my spiritual life evidences this same tendency - ignoring instructions. Instead of sitting in my drawers, these instructions are within the covers of my Bible. I would benefit from reading the instructions. For instance, when I am: