Sheep Don’t Wallow
The story is told of a lamb and its mother. It seems the lamb passed a pig pen each morning on the way to pasture with its mother. Watching the pigs wallow in the mud seemed like fun and on an especially hot day the lamb asked his mother if he could jump the fence and wallow in the cool mud. She replied, “NO”. Then the lamb asked the usual question, “WHY?” The mother just said, “SHEEP DON’T WALLOW.”
This did not satisfy the lamb. So as soon as the mother was out of sight, the lamb ran to the pig pen and jumped in. After a few moments he decided he had better go back to his mother, but he couldn’t, he was stuck. Mud and wool don’t mix. His pleasure had become his prison. He cried out and was rescued by the kindly farmer. When cleaned and returned to the fold, the mother said, “Remember, sheep don’t wallow.”
Sin is like that. It looks so nice, and fun, thinking we can escape when we wish, but it is not so… pleasures become our prison. CHRISTIANS DON’T WALLOW!
James 4:13-14 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
The Elders’ Corner
Gary Culbreath