We’re all familiar, I’m sure, with the terminology “couch-potato,” a slang term for a person “who spends little or no time exercising and a great deal of time watching television.” [1] Along with many of my fellow Americans, I admit that I have been guilty of being a couch potato at various points in my life, but until recently had never given much thought to the term. I have always thought of couch-potatoes as people who were not doing something they should be doing. While this is true, I have given much more thought in the last week to how a person becomes a couch potato, about what they are doing that they should not be doing, and how this applies to our walk with God . Allow me to explain. While preparing for a Bible Study with a young friend in the Midwest a couple weeks ago, I was struck by Psalm 1:1. Notice the bolded words in this verse: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the ...
Pressing in, not turning back, growing in faith, not growing slack, ... daring to be restless with anything less than God's best.