Sometimes a person faces a challenge alone with plenty of preparation. Thusly comes commandment four in Exo. 20:8—11: “Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.” The Sabbath is God's training plan for eternity, for the challenges of the mortal and immortal life, and believers may practice the Sabbath independently of mortal mentors. There are common win-or-lose challenges in the mortal life. One situation is where an adult person loses control of his or her bodily functions and may get injured. I could use as examples emotional outbreaks (such as tantrums, grandstanding, crying in fear, desire, sadness, and/or anger) or mental breakdowns and severe (extremely uncontrollable) mood swings; loss of focus while driving or working, physical breakdowns such as heart attacks, seizures; aneurisms; strokes; vomiting; fainting; sweating; shivering; defecating (or diarrhea); bedwetting (urination); falling to the ground (stumbling, tripping) unpredictably, uncontrollably, itches; and fight/flight responses as reflex reactions. Victory would be to maintain control and normal bodily function in the face of adversity, such as Covid-19 or old age, or regain normal bodily function without anyone else's help after losing control. Defeat would be to lose control of normal bodily function and require help to regain control. This above-written list is only a small sample of common challenges of the mortal life. The challenge could be worse if one loses control of normal bodily function without anyone to help regain control when the same person needs and seeks help. Help may not be conveniently available for regaining control of normal bodily function. What happens when adults cannot rely on others to help when needed? Instances may occur again over a person's adolescent and adult lifetime for losing control, and, in this case, such a person would need to get help unless he or she is not also incapacitated at the time. One may not have the convenience of a nearby hospital, pharmacy, retail outlet, gas station, rest room, emergency clinic, or convalescent center handy when the need for help with regaining control happens (and a change/wash of clothes). One may not have the convenience of proper comfort and care nearby when the need arises. Help from other mortals is not always there when the need for help arises, when the need for knowledge, skill, wisdom, and material resources (comfort, food, shelter, clothes, sanitation, medicine, medical and preventive care, money, transportation, etc., etc.) becomes realized. Mortals cannot always expect other mortals to hear and respond to the cry for help. As examples, there are drowning victims, or shipwrecked passengers, chronic unemployment from the Covid-19 pandemic, and stranded victims of car accidents. Hopefully, either there is someone mortal to intervene, or God must intervene. Sometimes, the challenge demands that only God can intervene. There are always challenges where only God can intervene to save the day and applies to the basic lessons of the Christian faith. My first metaphor is about living and learning as a Christian despite unexpected emergencies, despite the propensity of the flesh to sin, ignorantly or otherwise. My first metaphor is about living by faith in God's grace and by God's commandments with the challenges and temptations of the mortal life, emergencies or not. All mortal believers occasionally neglect to remember and apply their basic, first lessons in the faith (i.e. the Ten Commandments) until after stumbling into sin and temptation again. Therefore, a mortal believer may occasionally soil him or herself with sin when heavily burdened with the cares of the mortal life. Who would help a believer to recover to his or her feet in the struggle of life against sin? How would such a believer find grace and rejoin the race? The struggle with sin, ignorance, forgetfulness, and the temptation to sin for the believer continues ongoing during mortal life until the flesh perishes from earth. A Christian cannot ever afford to forget his or her first, basic lessons about sin and forgiveness, about God's laws and grace, especially if no one else (no one mortal) cares nor is available to help with recovery. Any stumbling Christian, just as a newborn infant or elderly, deteriorating person, must learn to fend for him or herself against sin and Satan throughout mortal life when no one mortal is available to help. Christians must learn to maintain themselves, get back into the competition against the flesh and Satan, and live penitently always. My first metaphor helps my readers to understand how sin and temptation are a constant struggle in the mortal life. No mortal nor holy angel is exempt from the temptation to sin. Suffering the temptation to sin while struggling with adversity is the demand of the mortal life, and God makes the provision of training His children for eternity with the fourth commandment.