Waiting Too Long

Once a man standing by Niagara saw an eagle sitting on a lamb frozen in a piece of ice.  The eagle was feasting upon the carcass as it drifted towards the rapids.  Now and then the eagle proudly lifted his head to look around, as if to say, “I’m drifting toward danger, but I know what I am doing.  I will fly away and escape before it is too late.”

  With great interest the man watched the piece of ice and its strange cargo drift nearer the awful roar of the falls.  At last the eagle stopped and spread his powerful wings and leaped for flight.  But alas, while he had been feasting on the carcass his feet had frozen to the fleece.  He leaped and shrieked in vain.  Together the frozen lamb and the eagle went over the falls into the crash and darkness of death.

 This incident illustrates the danger of every soul feasting on sin.  Many people, intend after a little more indulgence, to turn away from sin and be saved.  But, alas, when they would turn, they find themselves bound by sinful habits, poisoned by sin, paralyzed in will, and frozen in soul by the evil upon which they have been feasting.

There is no greater folly than feasting upon the world until one is wedded to it.  We should seek the Lord while we are able to escape the clutches of death.  #

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