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Eek! A Snake!

 

I am musing about...

Eek!

What is it about a snake. They are alarming! Wouldn't you agree?

No matter how small, they have a way of eliciting fear, or at least anxiety.

So the other day, while taking a walk around our neighborhood and talking to my sis on the phone I was surprised to see a small black snake along the edge of the street. I stopped and exclaimed to my sis, "A snake!". We used to see them now and then in the country growing up, but this was a rare sighting for sure. And an unwelcome one at that.

I hung up. Snapped a pic. Started walking. Saw the neighborhood boy. "Hey, I said, come look at this." We walked back to where I had spotted the snake. The young man, tentatively followed me, not sure of  what I was going to show him. "I think it moved" I said as I approached it. "Stand back."

It was then he saw it. He smirked. "Oh that", he said. "It's fake. I put it out there yesterday."

You can imagine my chagrin. You can imagine his big grin. I think I made his day:)

Yep, I was decieved. I thought for sure it was real. I did not even attempt to entertain any other option. Such it is with deception. And how appropriate that it was a snake, for satan, the serpent, is the sly perpetrater of deceit, with nothing but evil intent.

May we pray daily for God's grace and for wisdom that we be not deceived when it comes to things pertaining to our spiritual life. May we dig into God's Word, that we might know Truth and thus be more apt to recognize potential deception.

May we be humble. And meek. The way I felt when I realized the true source of my "Eek!"

"So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him."  Rev. 12:9

"Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you."  James 4:7


                                                            




                                                    










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