If you were to make a list of “Top 10 Mother Quotes”, one of them would HAVE to be, “Did you wash behind your ears?” And, if your mother is like mine, regardless of how you responded, she would check. I don’t know what she expected to find, but evidently that’s one body-area we tend to neglect.
I pretty sure it’s not the small area behind our ears that mothers are concerned about… I think dirt behind the ears might indicate a bigger problem. Maybe we’re not taking the whole “bath thing” seriously enough. The back side of the ears is just kind of a litmus test.
I propose to you that there might be some litmus tests which indicate how serious we are about our Christianity. If you were given the responsibility of choosing a litmus test that would indicate how seriously someone is about their commitment to the Lord, what would it be?
My suggestion would be that the consistency of our attendance at every assembly and Bible classes might be a pretty good indicator. Another one might be- do you read your Bible regularly?
It also occurs to me that it’s not so much the act of attending every assembly or the act of reading our Bible… it’s more about what these things indicate about how seriously we’re taking our commitment to the Lord.
Check behind your ears.
-Ken Stegall