On our vacation in Florida, the kids spent most of the time in the pool. After a few days, they began to look for ways to aggravate each other. When 4-year-old Jacob started to get in the pool with his sisters, they told him, "No! There's a shark in here!"
Jacob pulled back from the water. Confused, he looked around and then tried to get in again, only to hear the same warning. This went on for a while, and finally Jacob gave up.
As he walked past my chair, I heard him mutter, "Get 'em, Shark."
—Kim Biasotto, Wilmington, DE. Christian Parenting Today, Vol. 11, no. 1.
Romans 3:13 (NIV) "Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips."
Psalm 24:3-4 (NIV) 3 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.
Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV) The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "DECEIT".
