They polluted what God had...
Illustration
They polluted what God had hallowed. And they lost it. It almost always happens this way. Sin will sap the vitality of even the most vital. Energy is depleted, strength wanes, vulnerability develops and disaster follows.
A relative of mine, starting from abject poverty, entered the business world, and within 13 years he was an important figure in his city and immensely rich. But pollution entered his life, immorality of various kinds, and so his judgment was affected, his motivation became clouded, and many who had trusted him felt they could not trust him any longer. In less than two years he was back into poverty again.
My father was a farmer. One of the crops he grew, and grown in the oldfashioned way, was corn. When the stalks had grown to a couple of feet in height, we had to go through the fields and pull the suckers from the stalks. Suckers were offshoots from the stalks, angling out from down near the roots, and always green with verdant life, but never producing any grain.
Why, we asked our father, did we have to pull those suckers off? His answer: The suckers sap the life from the stalk, rob the stalk of its vitality, take away its power to grow fully and to produce grain. Sin is a sucker.
-- Mann
A relative of mine, starting from abject poverty, entered the business world, and within 13 years he was an important figure in his city and immensely rich. But pollution entered his life, immorality of various kinds, and so his judgment was affected, his motivation became clouded, and many who had trusted him felt they could not trust him any longer. In less than two years he was back into poverty again.
My father was a farmer. One of the crops he grew, and grown in the oldfashioned way, was corn. When the stalks had grown to a couple of feet in height, we had to go through the fields and pull the suckers from the stalks. Suckers were offshoots from the stalks, angling out from down near the roots, and always green with verdant life, but never producing any grain.
Why, we asked our father, did we have to pull those suckers off? His answer: The suckers sap the life from the stalk, rob the stalk of its vitality, take away its power to grow fully and to produce grain. Sin is a sucker.
-- Mann
