Another Analogy For Sin


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Today, a sister spoke of a vacation she had in Aruba.  A harrowing experience gave her appreciation for what is really important.

She was snorkeling with her husband looking at an underwater garden.  Although they had been warned to not go beyond the buoys, she decided to go farther anyway.  It was so beautiful.  She was enjoying herself too much to even think of the rules.  She was just looking.  And it was so much fun.  She felt like she was in a dreamland.

Some thoughts finally came to her about the sudden drop off, the ocean currents, the buoys, and the thought of her son.  She got hold of her husband and said they need to go back right away.

To her dismay, she started kicking her flippers to head towards the shore and found that she was going backwards.  She was caught in the current.  She kicked harder.  She barely stayed still.  Knowing what was at stake, she kicked as hard as she could.  She slowly went forward.  It was a long swim back to where the current would let up.  And she was losing energy.  But it was continue or die.  And she knew it.  This fear was the only thing that eventually saved her.

She made it back to shore, completely exhausted, to find that her son and a guide were waiting on the shore wondering what they could do to help.  There were no boats.  There were no rescue personnel.  And they did not know that the motivation for her to turn around was that she was actually worried about her son.  But there he was safe on the shore worried about the very real danger he knew she was in.

Her message was that we tend to be ok with doing so much for the things we enjoy.  We sacrifice so much.  But we don't think about the danger of what we can lose.

The message I got out of the story was that this is a perfect analogy for any sin, especially the serious sins.  We think it's okay to go out beyond the lines.  There's nothing there that can harm us.  But we don't realize we've been caught in the current of worldliness and evil.  When we finally awaken to our awful state, will it be too late?  Or can we actually get back if we try with all our might.

Unlike the life-and-death experience this sister had, we may not be aware of the eternal life-and-death situation we are in due to sin.  Will we give it our all on a constant and consistent basis until we reach the shore?  Or will we be lax in our repentance?  Just because the spiritual things may not be so up-close and personal, we may delude ourselves into thinking the urgency is not as great.  But it is.  And that's the trick.

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