It is true that Satan's path is made
to appear attractive, but it is all a deception… If we take Christ for our guide, He will lead
us safely. –Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pp.139, 140.
“Look
at those beautiful flowers!” I exclaimed as I pointed to some orchids and
lilies that surrounded us. We were visiting a botanical garden in London, and
it was the biggest I had ever seen in my life! It had all the different kinds
of plants and flowers you could ever imagine, and it would take you a few days
to see everything. You could also find lots of
greenhouses that had flowers and plants from different regions of the planet
and its various climates. In a place like
that, it is easy to get lost! My mum warned me and my two little brothers to
stay close by, where she could see us.
Being three
years old, my brother Brian was very curious and adventurous. He needed to
explore all the endless trails and exotic plants (especially the ones that would
open their ‘mouths’ when he put a little piece of something on top of them).
Then we got to a greenhouse with aquatic plant species that had little ponds
everywhere. We didn’t realize that Brian was missing until we heard “Splash!”
We ran to the place where the splash came from, and there he was, reaching for
the edge of the pond. Thankfully, it wasn’t a deep pond! But what we saw next
made us burst into laughter: the surface of the water was covered in duck weed.
Curious little Brian had thought he was walking on a nice green meadow; then
there was no meadow anymore.
Satan
always wants to delude me, and he uses appearances of beautiful flowers to make
me fall. Since it is impossible for me to see the deception under a nice green
‘meadow,’ how can I make it through? But I know I have Someone much wiser than
I am Who will walk with me and lead me safely around the tricky “duckweed”;
that’s only if I choose to walk with Him.
~ Mildred Rhys
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