ARE YOU SNIFF AND SNUFF OR HEM AND HAW?

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Once upon a time, in a far away land there lived two pairs of mice; Sniff and Scurry and Hem and Haw. Every day, with the diligence of need, they all journeyed their separate ways while searching for their breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

At the break of day, they put on their jogging shoes, left their little homes and roamed far and wide, within the confines of a giant maze. They were always in search of their favorite and necessary food - cheese.

In some corners they would find delicious tidbits, but as time went on, it became increasingly difficult to find anything. At the end of each day they now returned home hungry, confused, and depressed.

Then one day, Sniff and Scurry found a giant mountain of cheese and joyfully ate and ate and ate. At the end of the day, when Hem and Haw returned from their same old, unsuccessful and wearying trek, they shared this good news,

Naturally Hem and Haw were excited beyond description – they were saved – and immediately demanded to be taken to what was now lovingly referred to as Cheese Mountain. There was more cheese here than they had ever seen – more than they could even imagine. This will last forever, they thought.

Each morning they would run to the mountain and eat their fill. It was a happy, stable time and so life remained the same for weeks and weeks; which is a long, long time in mouse-years.

One day they finally noticed that their mountain of cheese had shrunk to not much larger than a molehill. Perhaps it wouldn’t last forever, after all.

Hem and Haw bemoaned the fact, but gave no more thought, and certainly no action, as to what needed to be done. Sniff and Scurry, however, realized that if they did not change their habits, one day very soon there would be no more food left and they would all starve.

So they began to ration how much they ate at Cheese Mountain and because it then took less time to eat, they would leave even earlier to hunt for another source of cheese.
At first Sniff and Scurry did find some additional corners in which there were small amounts of delicious cheeses they had never eaten before, but they were so small that soon they too were all gone.
Meanwhile, as their mountain of cheese became almost infinitesimal, Hem and Haw were only analyzing what to do. Even as the day drew closer and closer when they would actually run out of cheese altogether, they simply could not bring themselves to go in search of another Cheese Mountain-Promised Land.

They were addicted to the status quo – when in doubt do nothing had always been their motto and they were not about to change. So Hem and Haw hemmed and hawed and ran out of cheese and got hungrier and hungrier.

And on the very day they died, Sniff and Scurry found Cheese Mountain #2. A mountain of cheese to large it could have fed a colony of mice and this new source of food was not that far from the first Cheese Mountain. But for Hem and Haw it had been the equivalent of a million miles away.
(Paraphrased, rewritten and redirected “Who Moved my Cheese” A story by Spencer Johnson)

There is always the temptation, even for we humans, to hold on to the equivalent of Cheese Mountain #1, a way of life that we are comfortable with, rather than search out a new way of living that offers greater contentment for mind, body and soul.

This is why the call for a fully committed life in Christ falls on so many deaf and unwilling ears. It requires change; a searching for an equivalent Cheese Mountain #2; a new goal with a tremendous rewards at the end - a mountain of spiritual food that will never run out.

And in the process, millions of people like Hem and Haw spend their time hemming and hawing and that to the detriment of their lives.

Spend their lives at Cheese Mountain #1 because while they sort of know about, and kind of understand this all out commitment to Christianity (Cheese Mountain #2)…this they fear. For it is more transition than they are willing to attempt.

You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.
Isaiah 26: 3

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