Making a Differencewith Pastor Phil Erickson

“Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.” – (Psalm 73:18)

I may be taking too much liberty with this passage, but I could not help but notice that twice in Psalm 73 was a reference made to slipping. In verse 2 the psalmist says that he had almost slipped because of his envy of the prosperity of wicked people. Then again in verse 18 we see another reference to a slippery place. I got to thinking that God’s people often fall because they tread 0n slippery places. You can mke the application here wherever it fits in your life, but a slippery place is a place, person or thing that presents to us a great temptation to sin. Maybe for you it’s the wrong crowd, or it could be sitting home alone on the internet; but it is a place where you can easily fall into sin. If you don’t want to fall, stay away from slippery places.