BEFORE YOU JUMP
Today's reading: Deuteronomy 15-17

Ever jumped, and wished you hadn't?

I'm a jumper from way back.

No, not from airplanes, I'll leave that to my Army Ranger nephew.

No, not rapelling from a mountainside. Dale's done it, but it's just too dangerous for me.

No, not into a swimming pool full of sharks--I can't swim.

I mean jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Jumping to conclusions.

I mean, well, I mean jumping in to stuff that I had no business what so ever to be in.

"When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly..." Deuteronomy 17:5 NLTa

Another area in which I'm needing a whole heap of improvement! I hear, well, at least I hear what I want to hear. That's when I jump.

What I need to start doing is studying more, listening more, praying more, being more understanding--jumping less.

Jumping, doctors say, is bad on the knees. I think in this instance, God agrees with the 'experts'--jumping is bad for your health.