Pull Your Socks Off

Some days we make mistakes. Sometimes it seems as if we can’t run for falling. By this statement I am reminded of a true story that my mom told me about herself many times when I was young. Pulling up her shirtsleeve to make visible the scar on her arm, she would always tell me how it all came about. “I was in the Church playing” she would say, “while I was supposed to be helping big brother and sister clean. We lived right next door to the Church in those days, so mom would always send us kids over to clean, but in which most times our cleaning would resolve into playing on the music, or hiding seek, or something other than the real task. As we carried on or business as usual in the Church that day, I heard sirens blaring out front. I have always been that of an inquisitive nature, and very curious I became over the sirens that was rushing by. So I began to run to the front of the Church, for I knew there was a window low enough in which I could see outside. As I ran, closing in on my destination, I became nonchalant to the fact that my long socks I was wearing because of the cold winter, had casually began to creep down my legs, leaving them flopping under my feet as I ran. So as fast as my little legs could carry me to that window I ran, and just before stopping to look out, I tripped on my floppy socks. My arm stuck out in the air, I went forward, as my arm went through the window. My sister and brother left me, running back home to assure their safety from becoming in trouble for the broken window. My arm began to bleed, as I walked the parking lot back over to my house, alone and crying. Still wearing those floppy socks that had become my hindrance in the running, I finally made it to mom. To make a long story short, a hospital trip, and 117 stitches later, an upset Church, and a mom and dad that weren’t very pleased …I was okay again.”


Beloved, I tell this story today as a very week analogy of what will happen to us Born Again Christians, if we become too relaxed in this Christian race. Don’t let the little sins hang on any longer. They will keep you from obtaining the prize of seeing the King. Be aware of your spiritual surroundings. Be alert in this race of faith. Though you fall, arise again. Don’t “become weary in well doing.” Put aside all sin, and anything that will be a hindrance to you while journeying with Christ. Beloved, simply pull your socks off, so you don’t trip while running.

Hebrews 12:1, “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”