As everyone who has a bird feeder knows a squirrel is very persistent in raiding the bird feeder. One scares them away only to have them return in minutes. Those who have studied squirrels say that the reason is this: a squirrel has no memory of fear. So no matter how often the owner of the bird feeder scares him away he will return. Sinners are like that. Sin brings deep dark feelings of guilt, anxiety, regret and often fear. Yet those terrible results of sin are quickly forgotten when temptation presents itself again.

-Robert Shannon, Preaching July/August 1999

 


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As everyone who has a bird feeder knows, a squirrel is very persistent in
raiding the bird feeder. One scares them away only to have them return in
minutes. Those who have studied squirrels say that the reason is this: a squirrel
has no memory of fear. So no matter how often the owner of the bird feeder
scares him away, he will return. Sinners are like that. Sin brings deep dark
feelings of guilt, anxiety, regret and often fear. Yet those terrible results
of sin are quickly forgotten when temptation presents itself again.


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The cockatrice was a legendary monster hatched from a cock’s egg by a toad or
serpent. It could kill its victims with a glance. It was finally destroyed by a
man in a coat of glass. The cockatrice saw himself reflected in the glass and
so died. The poet Robert Burns longed for us to see ourselves as others see us.
It is far more important that sinners see themselves as God sees them – which
is another way of saying that they should see themselves as they really are.


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