Uncle Bob enjoyed his boat. He loved to be out on the water, and he loved to fish. One day he was out fishing with a friend and he exclaimed, “This is like a dream come true . . . the whole bottom of the boat is full of fish! They are so plentiful today, I think they’d bite at anything.” To prove his point, he ripped up a paper plate, baited his hook with a piece of it, and, you guessed it, in a few minutes he’d caught a fish! The two friends had a good laugh over the foolish fish.
Now, have you ever been like that fish that got caught with a piece of a paper plate? Sometimes when we are with our friends, we do what the others are doing just because everybody’s doing it. As a Christian, you and I should stop to think for ourselves and to ask ourselves the question, Will this thing that I’m doing please the Lord Jesus, who paid such a tremendous price to save me from sin and to deliver me from this present evil world? Exodus 23:22Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: (Exodus 23:2) plainly instructs, “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.”
Don’t be like the fish that took that useless bait. Feed on the Bible, the Word of God. It has only good food for you, and there aren’t any hooks in it either.
ML-03/27/2005