THE lobster found he could squeeze himself into the trap easily enough, and enjoyed the pieces of fish so temptingly placed at the bottom.
However, when he wished to leave, it was another matter altogether. The way he had come in, was closed against him. There was no way out. He was caught, and kept a prisoner until the fisherman came to lift the trap, and secure his “take.”
Many boys and girls, or men and women, too, are “caught” today, for the world has many a “bated trap.” They look fair and attractive. There appears no harm in them. Their way is so simple. The pleasures of sin are so enticing, and the way out is not looked for, as the simple one enters the snare.
Look ahead! Think not of the present only, but of the future. A little bit of the pleasures of sin now may mean your eternal loss, but let us take warning and consider the instructions and reproofs of God’s Word, and we shall be preserved from the traps.
ML 04/09/1922