survival training

Little Johnny sat playing in the garden. When his mother came out to collect him, she saw that he was slowly eating a worm. She turned pale. "No, Johnny! Stop! That's horrible! You can't eat worms!" Trying to convince him further she noted, "The mother worm is looking all over for her nice baby worm." "No, she isn't," said Johnny.
"How do you know she's not?" said the mother. "Because I ate her first!" answered Little Johnny.

 I know this story seems gross to most of us (unless you are in survival training). However as I read the story, I wondered how many of us have "eaten the worm," of sin and uncleanness the world presents to us.

God's word says stay away from sin, yet the world says, It's OK, a little sin won't hurt you. Yet, God's word says that Sin is Sin and it only takes a little bit to separate you from God.

A friend one day was eating a candy covered apple and said, "Yuck, I just found a worm in this apple."I replied, "It could have been worse." He said, "How?" I told him, "You could have found half of a worm." I was not surprised to find recently that there are websites that now sell chocolate covered worms. But you see, candy coating a worm doesn't change the fact that it is a worm.

Satan, through the world is trying very hard to candy coat the worms in our lives called Sin. He has taken the purity of life, sexual relations, pure worship, etc. and changed it into something God has called Sin. Notice what Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11: "Don't you know that people who are unjust won't inherit God's kingdom? Don't be deceived. Those who are sexually immoral, those who worship false gods, adulterers, both participants in same-sex intercourse, thieves, the greedy, drunks, abusive people, and swindlers won't inherit God's kingdom.  That is what some of you used to be! But you were washed clean, you were made holy to God, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." (Common English Bible)

Satan, through our Television programming, movies, books, etc. is trying to candy coat the worm. He is doing a good job of desensitizing us morally and ethically to accept the worm of sin, as something that tastes good, or at lease is not all that bad. They promote fornication (living together), Adultery (having sex with someone other than you spouse), homosexuality, lying, cheating, abuse of others and more other sins than I can list.

We need to start working very hard at regulating what we put into our minds and the minds of our children. I have had to stop watching televising programs which I enjoyed in the past, because they promote lifestyles and values that God condemns. There are movies I will not go and see and actors I will not support by watching them who are trying to feed me candy coated worms.

How about it, are you ready to eat the worm, or are you ready to draw the line and stand for what God stands for in the way of righteous living!

Russ Lawson