The frog and the youth minister
something in a pot. There is a saying, a metaphor if you will, about a “Proverbial Frog”. It really doesn’t have anything to do with the witch’s boiling pot, as far as I know.
This story tells us; if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, he will jump out. However, if you put a pot of cool water on the stove and then add the frog. Not sensing danger the frog will stay. Next, turn the burner on low to slowly heat the water. By the time the frog realizes its danger, the water is beginning to boil, and it is too late to take action. The frog will die in the boiling water.
I heard a speaker in an assembly make a comment once, “The problem with our society is that we have de-sensitized sin.” I feel like he was spot on, and the other night proved it again personally. I went to a movie with my 23- year- old son and another young man who lives with us. Right off the bat, the movie characters began using some very bad language. If we had been at home, I would have immediately made them turn the movie off. I was not happy about the language, but the movie story line was enjoyable to me. I could have walked out of the movie, and it wouldn’t have been the first time, but I didn’t. I guess I was enjoying the story so much, that I compromised my convictions.
Psalm 1: 1 reads, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” Notice that there is a progression of sin. The blessed man does not do these certain things. There is a way he will not walk, a path he will not stand in, and a seat he will not sit in. While this passage is a promise to the man that doesn’t do these things, it’s also a warning to the man that does.
Many times we will become increasingly comfortable in sin, like the frog does in the pot of water. Sometimes this leads to us finding ourselves in places where we never thought we’d be. Thankfully, there’s forgiveness for Christians who admit when they have sinned. That promise is found in 1st John 1:9 where is says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Where do we start? We start with agreeing with God that we have sinned. It’s not that we’re letting him in on a secret of what we have done, but rather agreeing with him that we have. Then we need to receive his forgiveness for it, and turn from it. Be Blessed.