The Frog Who Stayed Too Long
I heard a story this past Sunday morning in Bible class as told by Mike
Hopkins, our teacher that morning, about a college science class that conducted
some experiments with frogs. They took a frog and dropped him in a pot of
boiling water. The frog immediately jumped out. They took another frog and
placed him in a pot of room temperature water but started warming the water
slowly. The frog didn't mind the water when it was cool. He grew accustomed to
the warming water and they turned it up to see when he became uncomfortable
enough to jump out. As the water gradually heated the frog adjusted and stayed.
Eventually the water was boiling and the frog died. He had become desensitized
to the change in temperature and did not realize he was in danger.
That sounded so cruel to me but it does illustrate an important lesson for us. I
hear and see things these days that would have shocked me a few years ago. I
don't even bat an eye anymore. I'm amazed at what teenagers and even younger
children know and have become accustomed to at school, with their friends and
even at home. We watch the news and TV programs and we are no longer shocked by
terrible things that we can't avoid unless we want to move to the mountains and
become hermits. I see people all around me that are desensitized by the heat
(Devil) we can't seem to avoid. We are told to be careful and be alert for
attacks from the enemy. He comes in disguise and he comes slowly so we will get
used to him.
"Be careful! Watch out for attacks from the Devil, your great enemy. He prowls
around like a roaring lion, looking for some victim to devour." {I Peter 5: 8}
Sharon Paxton Btlfan910@aol.com