Yesterday I was making Mike’s lunch, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, Mike looked at the bag and said, ”Hey there is a bug in there.” Sure enough and earwig was crawling around the bottom of the bag (but not for long!!!)
How did that bug get in there? The bag was closed with a twist-tie! I never saw the bag open other than when Mike or I were grabbing a piece of bread?... so how did the bug get in the bag? I don’t know… I just don’t know! I suppose I never will; but one thing I did know, I had to get the bug out of there… which I did immediately.
That little incident provides me with a snapshot of life. I don’t know how it happens but it is not uncommon for me to, all of a sudden, realize that a ‘bug’ has crawled into my life. Now this ‘bug’ may be:
a mean spirit toward a certain person or
anger or
jealousy or
self-centeredness or
distasteful language or
a myriad of other specie of ‘bugs.’
Sometimes I never do figure out how the ‘bug’ got in my life, but one thing I have to do every time is get the bug out as soon as I can.
The Apostle Paul writes, you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. And then he goes on to say how: let the word of Christ dwell in you richly... (Colossians 3:8, 16)
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