Please don’t feed the bears….

So I am writing this with my phone, so that’s pretty odd. But I was having a thought that I thought I should share with my following I have here (sarcasm). I was doing some reading earlier today, and I came across something rather intersting. There was a reference to yellowstone park and the bears there. The author was talking about his trip to yellowstone. He says he noticed signs everywhere that said,”please do not feed the bears”. Yet he seen bunches of people feeding the bears. The author later talks of a conversation he had later with a park ranger. The ranger was saying how the signs weren’t up for the peoples protection but rather for the bears. Every year park rangers have to drag out a number of dead bears after winter and fall because they forget how to fend for food because they were so used to getting fed by other people.
I was thinking that this is how we can get and how I had been and maybe still can be spiritually. I think this serves as a pretty good warning as to what will happen if people are not fully discipled. They/we will become dependent on someone else spiritually feeding us and if nobody does then we will slowly die spiritually. Yes we need to have friends and mentors that we learn from. But that should not be the main source of our spiritual feeding. There is no substitue for time with the Father and time in the word.
This is no great revelation of course. but this just reminds me of the condition of the American Church. There are a lot of great programs and groups, people are gaining friends and aren’t cussing and drinking anymore which is great. But are people being discipled and taught how to feed themselves spiritually? I have a strange
feeling that most are not. This makes me feel an urgency and conviction. A urgency for our countries spiritual condition and conviction because I haven’t done anything about it. I currenly pour into nobody’s life, and am living in blatent opposition to the great commission.
This ended up turning into a rant, I apologize for that. And it looks like from looking back over this, that this was written mainly out of disapointment in myself more than anything. Anyways, just needed to write. That’s all.