What are spending your time and energy on? What do you expect to gain from what you are spending your time and energy on? These are two very simple questions, and yet we seldom take the time to do this sort of self-inventory. Lemuel’s mother wanted him to know that he was called to be a king, and there are certain ways that kings don’t behave. Kings must be disciplined, focused, and not given over to that which would destroy them. Dear Christian, do you realize that you possess a higher calling than Lemuel? Do you realize that as a child of the King of kings, there are behaviors that are not congruent with your calling? And do you realize that you must be disciplined, focused, and not given over to destructive, carnal pleasures, if you would live up to your calling? May Christ give us the wisdom and strength to embrace this reality, and live it out.