Today’s Thought “The Hamster’s Wheel” G. Ward Galatians 5:7-10 “You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.” Heresy (beliefs contrary to God’s Word) is the culprit to violation of implicit trust in Holy God’s will and especially when the practice of impersonal worship (i.e. one speaker making poetic appeal to great audiences, perhaps unfamiliar with their spiritual condition) demands eloquence from leaders over the practicality truth offers (cf. Ac.2:43-47). Spiritual realities places responsibility on the hearer that compels a total surrender onto Sufficiency and while the worldly view promotes philosophies similarly and seemingly prudent, they’re ever changing, appealing to the relentless pursuit of pleasure found in mankind (Jer.17:9). Instead, true believers demonstrate gratefulness unto how gracious the Savior is in supplying merciful love (even through death and resurrection), paying the price for our sin and leading our meditation’s comparability to that of the caged gerbil on its wheel; while it appears impractical for many as they watch, it brings great joy to the rodent.