At our house there is almost nothing that is disliked more than a spider. Any size or any shape, all are loudly exclaimed about... and not nicely. It makes no difference that they catch insects and so are good. “The only good spider in this house is a dead one!” has been stated a number of times. And that is how most of them end up... dead.
Spiders do not really bother me, but maybe that is because I do not Live in Africa or South America. Mere you can find really large spiders. There are pictures of spiders that are nearly six inches across! I would not want one like that in my house.
Some of these big spiders are poisonous. Anyone bitten by one of these will die if they cannot reach a doctor or hospital quickly.
There is a story about a missionary in Africa who had an experience with one of these large poisonous spiders. He had walked into his louse and there on the floor was one of these big spiders. He went back outside and found a straight stick bout six feet long.
Instead of killing the spider with it immediately, he stood about five feet away and began teasing it a little by touching it lightly with the end of his stick.
As he drew the stick back toward his legs, away from the spider, it suddenly jumped right onto the stick. The spider tried to bite the stick, and the missionary could see the poison running down the stick.
He then killed the spider quickly, but realized how foolish he had been to “play” with something so dangerous. The spider had been very accurate in its attack on the stick. If it had decided to attack the missionary’s leg instead, he most certainly would have been bitten!
Perhaps you would know better than to tease a poisonous spider, but are you playing with something that is even more dangerous — SIN? Sin is a deadly enemy — telling a lie, disobeying, or doing something secretly that you know is wrong are Satan’s traps to lead you to an everlasting punishment. God says, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Ezekiel 18:44Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezekiel 18:4).
How can we be free from Satan’s power? Escape is only through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ whom God sent into this world to be our Saviour. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)) is God’s way of escape for you. It is “the blood of Jesus Christ His [God’s] Son” that “cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7). We must believe and accept the Lord Jesus as our Saviour to be saved and set free from sin.
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