This week I got a great laugh watching my kids trying to catch a rabbit. Our backyard is on a pond and occassionally (like everyday) we see small animals roaming around. Yesterday it was a rabbit.
"Mom, hurry, I need that bag of carrots you bought at the store Sunday. I'm setting a trap." he said as he came running into the house. I'm thinking: 1. Why are you wearing shoes on the carpet I just swept? 2. Have you any idea how much carrots cost? or the cost of anything for that matter?
I gave him carrots that weren't good to eat anymore then I followed him outside to see what he and the neighbor kids had cooked up.
They wasted no time in walking me through how the trap worked. They even said they ran "tests" like on Mythbusters. "See? We put a line of carrots here...and when the bunny comes back he'll eat this one...then this one...then this one...until WHAM! we pull the trigger on this fishing pole and the trap comes down and we've got him!"
"What are you going to do with the rabbit once you have it captive?" I asked (afraid of the answer).
"Just keep it there for a while and toy with it." answered a neighbor friend.
Thankfully the rabbit never returned. They sat on the back porch for about 30 minutes in silence, waiting for the rabbit to come back. Finally, in the name of hunger & homework, the mission was aborted.
You know what? That's crafty.
And just like the enemy in our own lives.
He sets a trap for us and lines out all kinds of temptations to lure us into captivity.
Wouldn't it be great to have what she has? eat a carrot...
Wonder what it would be like to just try "that"? eat a carrot...
One time won't hurt anyone... eat a carrot...
Everyone else is doing it! eat a carrot...
WHAM! Did you hear that? It was the trap coming down on us and now we're in captivity. Shouldn't we have seen this coming? (But those carrots looked so good!) Shouldn't we have slowed down and kept on guard? Shouldn't we have seen the trap ahead of us?
Yeah. We should've. Don't take the bait and willingly walk into captivity where the enemy will keep you there and toy with you.
Let us all be warned. Don't bite the carrot.
James 1:14-16 - "but each one is tempted when by his own evil desires, he is dragged away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."
11 comments:
Great analogy. I was just readin along wondering about that poor little bunny, in total oblivion to the spiritual analogy. I hope that I can walk thru this day a bit more alert! Coffee might help, huh?
That's good, Kim. So true. I struggle with this, walking into his traps but thinking I can handle it.
The last sentence is a little harsh since we have been trying to get Natalie to eat her carrots, but hopefully it won't set her back too bad.
That's a great analogy! There are lessons to be learned everywhere.
Satan tempts us in small steps, and then we look up and say "How did I get here?".
Good post!
So true!
Great Post!!! It is amazing how true it is. I want to get to the point where I see the trapt before instead of after. I can look back at certain things and see how the enemy toyed with me. How I allowed it without even knowing it. I just sat back and let it happen and then came the "I don't know why these things always happen to me--BOO HOO".
Man that was Roll material there. Took me back when I was a kid I was always trying to catch something
It must be analogy day. My FIRST post was a brush analogy. I like yours better actually.
I would so be there with the boys, waiting and waiting.......
oh how funny.. priceless
Boys are so creative. I love the stuff they think up. I like bunnies better than the warty frogs Toby and his friends are always after.
I have three friends who currently have bunny stories on their blogs. Another is even about making a bunny trap too! Must be a spring thing.
What I find especially hilarious is not that they tried to catch a rabbit, but the trap I instantly built in my own mind looked EXACTLY like the pictures you showed.
What? I watched too many cartoons when I was little? Of course not...
Great analogy though, relating to bondage and being held hostage.
Oooo...great analogy!! I like carrots, but I'll be sure to avoid those "sneaky" ones!
Andrew (now 26) set a horse trap once when he was about 6. And one day a pony ACTUALLY came running through our acreage! He said, "I told you it would work mom!"
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