Destruction Invited
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."1
Vernon Eaton, commenting on the book, Ways of the Ant, by John Crompton, writes: "A pleasure-mad society needs to take a lesson from the Sanguine ants and their affair with the Golden-Haired beetle.
"The ants' normal diet is plain, often to the point of austerity, but they love unusual and exotic tidbits and will go to any lengths to satisfy this craving. For example, the Golden-Haired beetle exudes from the base of its golden hairs some secretion which ants find irresistible. So it is allowed to do anything it likes, even lay its own eggs, which soon turn to grubs. So besotted and obsessed do the worker ants become that they feed the beetle with food intended for their own infants, and even with food reserved for the queen.
"Worse, much worse, they allow the beetle to kill their infants and eat them. They even kill their own infants themselves and feed them to this stranger. The beetle repays them with a generous allowance of the secretion they crave…. The end is not immediate. The colony may last two years more, but the end is certain.
"How like Satan is this picture. Promising the 'pleasures of sin' and then enslaving us with our own cravings. The 'dead-end' may not be obvious at first, but it is inevitable."
The good news is that while we know that the wages of sin is death, which is eternal separation from God, the gift of God is both forgiveness and eternal life. Both are freely available for all who believe and ask. Will you accept God's love and eternal life today?
Suggested prayer: Dear God, help me remember that sin always has its consequences and that I will always reap what I sow—even if it is eventually! Thank you for providing an escape from sin through Jesus' death on the cross. Help me accept Your gift of eternal life, and may I share this Good News with others. Thank You for hearing and answering my prayer. In Jesus' name, amen.
1. Romans 6:23 (NIV).
Today's Encounter was written by: Crystal B
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