Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 7 verses 15 through 20:
15 ‘Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus you will know them by their fruits.
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in life is that not all people are good and some wish us real harm.
We may wish very much that a person may or situation may change, but our wishing only results in greater pain and disappointment for us. Like the person out looking for figs among thistles in today’s Lesson, we end up only hurting ourselves. We have to learn to recognize the thistles and quit walking into them. We have to learn to quit letting ourselves be hurt, taken advantage of, or betrayed. We have to learn to recognize wolves in sheeps clothing.
There’s an old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
None of want to be anybody’s fool. And part of our growing up means seeing that we don’t have to be either.
No comments:
Post a Comment