KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Poison
IMAGINE THE SCENE: You like to fish, so you crank up the motor on your old boat and head out into Lake Ontario, near Olcott, New York...
You get several nice walleyes and clean them right away. That night you have a wonderful fish dinner complete with fried potatoes and cole slaw. "It doesn't get any better than this," you say to your satisfied self. Wrong! At least according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Although the fish were delicious, eating them increased your risk of getting cancer. New tests show high levels of Mirex, a poison used to control fire ants.
THOUGHTS: What appears so inviting and satisfying may contain destructive elements. It may be something we are looking at on TV or in a magazine, or listening to on tape or on a CD. Satan sometimes uses pleasurable things to bring about our downfall. But in the pleasure he hides the poison. We need to be extremely careful about what we take into our hearts and minds. What seems the most pleasant may be the most harmful (Dave Egner).
KneEmail: "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that is was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate" (Gen. 3:6).