An old farmer living on the edge of a great dark forest points to the woods and says to his grandson, “There are wolves in that forest and I feel as if I have two of them fighting in my own heart.
One wolf is dishonest, sly and selfish, a wolf I cannot trust. The other wolf is honest, trustworthy and totally unselfish.”
“Which wolf will win the fight in your heart, grandpa?” asks the young boy.
“The one I feed,” comes back the reply, “The one I feed.”
There are times when life comes to a screeching halt, when the wolf that is being fed is the sly, dishonest, selfish one. They can be big times or little times but when liars and thieves are briefly in charge the world becomes a poor and shriveled place to live.
A quarter of a century ago, our son had to cancel his morning newspaper subscription because someone in his apartment complex stole it every morning. It was not earthshaking but then again it was, because without a high level of confidence in our fellowman, integrity dies and when integrity dies civilization dies.
Let us pray that the Spirit will be poured upon us from on high. When people stop listening to God’s Word, their life becomes ‘a desolate wasteland’ (Zechariah 7:11-14).
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