There's More Than Just Germs Out There

"5 second rule!"
It's kind of a common phrase you hear when someone drops something on the floor, quickly bends down, picks it up and eats it.
But the thing is, the five second rule doesn't really work. One of my friends put it this way: "The germs aren't just going '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, go!'"
Germs aren't the only thing that doesn't follow the five second rule. Temptations don't either.
We wish germs  would wait five seconds before springing up on our food; we wish temptations would wait until we were ready to face them. Well, sorry, but neither does that. Germs are always out there just like temptations.
They aren't waiting for us to be prepared so we've got to be ready for them. How? (Try not to drop food on the ground.) Scripture study (not just reading, studying and pondering), sincere prayer, regular church attendance.
It's never too late to start preparing. But the sooner you start, the easier it's going to be.