Daring to be Restless

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 way of sinners, nor sits in