Good Friday morning! It is interesting to read in the news of scandals where one problem comes to light, and then it seems that every other day or so more bad things are exposed to the light. The past couple of weeks in our Bible study, we studied the David Scandal from way back in the day. You will recall that there was this bathing beauty first, and then another sin and another, and finally a whole bunch more. How often one problem in life leads to such a flood of further problems. Sins often have the same behavior. It seems unfair that if I pull out just one stone from the wall of righteous behavior, that the entire dam should come crashing down on top of me. Well, yes, those old time Bible stories aren't just for our entertainment, they are a warning to us.
In our youth, we were taught that one lie leads to a covering lie, and then another, and so on until disaster comes and the end of the world is ushered in by that one little lie. Sure, there may have been a bit of exaggeration from the parent folk there, but it isn't far from what happened to a lady called Eve. If our ultimate ancestors had known fully the flood of pain and death that followed that one little reaching out for the forbidden fruit... Yes, but the tempter is adept at hiding the consequences of sin. The Serpent told Eve, "You will become like God!" And the rest of the story is all of painful history up to now with a bit more to go called the Revelation.
It takes a mighty Savior to stop the flood after we have released it. Praise God that He sent one in Jesus our Lord!
Bucky
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