JUST A LITTLE LACK OF CONCENTRANCE! Train driver Francisco Jose Garzon Amo in Spain was on the phone when the train rounded a curve, he mistook it for another route, or he may have been looking at a map! The train crashed into a retaining wall, killing 79 people. The eight-car train, en route from Madrid to Ferrol, derailed and crashed into a retaining wall about 4 km northwest of Santiago de Compostela at 8:42 p.m. on July 23, 2013. We can be looking at a map of heaven and yet cause an accident! 1. Don't be distracted! Stay focused! Distractions in daily life can have immediate consequences, but spiritual distractions have eternal consequences! Judges 7:5, 6. So the people's representative went down to the water; Then the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set aside by himself, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.” 6 The number of those who lapped the water with their hands and put their mouths to it was three hundred; the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink. Deuteronomy 8:11. Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, not keeping his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which I command you today; for you are not to forget the LORD your God. Psalm 119:9. How can a young man keep his way pure? Be careful to follow God’s Word. 2. Don’t set your own standards or adjust God’s Word! Don’t adjust God’s Word yourself – God has detailed, meticulous rules for the life of a follower of Him! Leviticus 10:1, 2. Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his censer, put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD; which he had not commanded them. 2 Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Some were too fast, some were too slow! The pilot of the Francisco Jose Garzon Amo train in Spain drove the train at 120 miles per hour, entering a curve while the maximum allowed speed was 50 miles per hour. Pilot Lee Kang Kook landed the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport, at a speed lower than the standard landing speed! 2 people died, 120 were injured - July 6, 2013 God's Word must be applied precisely! Like the speed of vehicles! Let's see how God guided Noah to build the ark and Moses to build the tabernacle. 3. Be awake! At 4am on August 1, 2013, a container truck passing through the intersection of Hoang Van Thu - Tran Huy Lieu (Ward 8, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City) rushed from the other side of the street and crashed into two houses, forcing 10 people inside to crawl out. The driver admitted to falling asleep! The Bible promotes wakefulness! Matthew 26:38, 40. Then he said to them: My soul is sorrowful even to death; remain here and watch with me. 40 Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter: What, could you not watch with me one hour? Mark 14:37. Then he came and found three sleeping; and he said to Peter: Simon, sleep! Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray and resist temptation. Mark 14:38. Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 1 Peter 5:8. Be sober and vigilant; because your adversary the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour. Mark 13:37. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch! 1 Thessalonians 5:6. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us be alert and sober. Watch for the Lord's return! Matthew 24:42. Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. The signs of the Lord's return are evident! 1 Peter 4:7. The end of all things is near; therefore be sober and watchful for prayer.