Grandma was sitting in the big armchair knitting. By and by she became drowsy and dropped off to sleep. Whiskers, the kitten, discovered the beautiful, soft ball of yarn lying on the table. In a moment he had rolled it onto the floor and bounded after it.
What fun he had! He had the time of his life rolling, tumbling and kicking at the tangled yarn, until he himself began to look like a ball of yarn, for most of it was wound and tangled about him. When he finally decided to stop playing and kicking, he found himself a prisoner! When Grandma awoke, she found Whiskers fast asleep amid the knots and tangles of yarn. She snipped the threads of yarn with her scissors and set the little prisoner free.
At first it was a fun game for Whiskers, but then he found himself so wound up in the yarn that he could not free himself. How like that sin is! Perhaps it starts out with just a little fun, but if we are not careful, Satan leads us on until we find ourselves hopelessly entangled in the meshes of sin, and we cannot escape.
Only the Lord Jesus can free us from the cords of sin and from Satan’s power. He came into the world to destroy the works of the devil and to set His captives free. Whenever a boy or girl or man or woman trusts in Jesus as Saviour, he is delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son (Colossians 1:1313Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: (Colossians 1:13)). He is brought “from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.” (Acts 26:1818To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. (Acts 26:18).)
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