verse of the day

Saturday 9 October 2021

A thing of beauty. ( James 1 v 12 - 15 )

 I was viewing BBC home page and it showed a picture of a mosquito, and had this heading ,'Is not this the worlds most beautiful mosquito?',the fact is it was.There are 3,000 species of mosquito in the world, and they are the cause of about 1 million deaths a year.There are many beautiful creatures in this world,we can admire them from afar,otherwise they will kill us.We can admire beauty but beware , because that beautiful thing  whatever it may be, can bring us grief. Remember the devil knows how to press the right button, knows our weakness'es and he can dangle them before our eyes. A  married man see's a beautiful woman ,and the devil  works on his lustful desires,entices him to sin in thought, and in deed.In Lord of the Rings there is a character called Gollum, he fell in love with a ring,even killing his friend for it,he called it 'My Precious'. He turned from being  a Hobbit,into a deformed and twisted being,that love for that thing of beauty, finally destroyed him. In the garden of Eden, Eve was tempted by Satan to eat the forbidden fruit,she listened,and then she looked,and she saw that the tree was beautiful, and its fruit delicious,and the rest is history. May God enable us not to yield to temptation,to not be blinded as to were it may lead us, and what it may do to us, and what it may cost us.

                                                   

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