ONCE while spending a short vacation near the seashore, I was much interested in an account of how a certain moth was collected by a city collector. He made a special journey to the coast to collect some specimens of a species which is said to be found in no other part of the country.
Shortly after sunset the moth collector proceeded along the top of the cliff, armed with a pot of syrup and a brush. Whenever he came to a thistle, he just daubed it slightly with the syrup and passed on. About midnight he returned along the same path, but this time provided with a lantern. As he stepped from thistle to thistle, his innocent victims were found clustering row id the syrup, and fell, an easy prey, into the collector’s hands.
What a solemn picture this is of how Satan catches his victims! He too stalks through the land with his pot of syrup, daubing the pleasures of sin with a delusive sweetness, and soon after his victims, hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, forget about their terrible danger.
How many there are like the night moths. They love darkness rather than light, and do not want to be exposed to the searching light of God’s holy Word, which tells them that their deeds are evil, even as the Lord Jesus said “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” John 3:19, 2019And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:19‑20).
Dear young friends, if you are yet unsaved, don’t let sin, that sweet morsel upon which you have fed so long, take you into a lost eternity. Turn to the Lord Jesus now, and be saved. You will find in Him a Saviour who will wash away all your sins in His own precious blood and bring you safe home to heaven.
“YE TURNED TO GOD FROM IDOLS TO SERVE THE LIVING AND TRUE GOD; AND TO WAIT FOR HIS SON FROM HEAVEN.” 1 Thess. 9;9, 10.
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