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Devotionals
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Your Sin Will Find You Out
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Your Sin Will Find You Out
(Author Unknown)
When I was a child I lived in a little town in Texas and attended a small country church. We were encouraged to memorize Bible verses, and there were two particular verses that made a great impression on me. One was Numbers 32:23 "Be sure your sin will find you out." The other one was Proverbs 28:13 "He that covers his sins shall not prosper." I wasn't clever or devious enough to get away with anything, and it seemed that every time I did something wrong I was always found out. Each time this happened I was reminded of those two verses.
But those verses really came to life for me one Wednesday evening when we were all at church for Prayer Meeting. At that time we had a little yellow pet canary named Tweetie that we kept in a cage. I especially loved to hear Tweetie sing, and each night we carefully covered his cage so he could sleep, and in the morning we put a little bowl of water in the cage so he could take a bath. He was my special pride and joy.
That night when we returned home we opened the door and heard the dreaded rattle of a snake. We looked up at Tweetie's cage, and were horrified to discover that a rattlesnake had crawled into the cage and swallowed Tweetie whole. Somehow the snake had stretched the bars enough to crawl through them, but after swallowing the canary, there was a huge bulge in the snake's belly, and there was not enough room between the bars for the snake to crawl back out of the cage. So the snake was trapped inside the cage with its "sin" obvious for all to see. My brave mother was able to kill the snake, but I grieved over the loss of my special pet bird.
Never again did a snake find its way inside our house, but I always remembered the lesson learned that day from a snake, for his sin was found out, and he certainly didn't prosper!
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Davidwayne Lackey 03/28/2015 20:00 |
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