This is a picture my husband took a while ago. He works in construction and found this poor guy wandering around the site one day. We have laughed a lot because of this picture and my sweetheart always shows it to everyone. It’s hard to believe it’s not a fake. But I was thinking about this poor little skunk today and am hoping never to end up like him. I’m sure that when he saw and smelled the yogurt he was looking for something sweet and satisfying. How many of us can identify with that? But I started to think that it’s the same with sin. The Bible teaches that satan appears as an “angel of light”. No one falls into sin because they want their freedom to be taken away. They fall into sin because they want to preserve their freedom. Therein lies the trap. Because when you sin and continue in that sin, it becomes a way of life, or an addiction, and so you lose the freedom you once thought you were preserving. The skunk was looking for something good but ended up being trapped and blinded by it. Samuel says it was running into things left and right and when animal control came for it, it walked right into the cage. Let’s not walk into any cages today.
“Jesus replied, ‘I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.’”
John 8:34-36
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