The Drunk & The Crocodile
Take 51 seconds and watch this video:
I think my favorite lines are:
“Just as I touched it, it had my leg at the same time…when it grabbed me I thought, ‘I’m in trouble.’” (drunk)
“How bizarre could you be, that’d be my worst nightmare to go in and spend time with Fatso?” (zoo keeper)
This little encounter is a lot like flirting with sin. If we truly believe that sin is evil and causes destruction, why do people flirt with it so much? Jesus was so serious about cutting sin out of our lives that he used hyperbole to illustrate how we need to cut it out of our lives (Mark 9)
“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off…”
“If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off…”
“And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out!”
Obviously we’re all works in progress being refined by God through the Holy Spirit. And we’ll continue to struggle with sin until we go to our heavenly home or when Christ returns. However, I’ve been meditating on sin nature lately and I feel as though we need to be in one another’s lives to a greater degree, in true Christ-centered community, helping one another be more aggressive about cutting sin out of our lives. Otherwise, we’ll be tempted to sin thinking we can control it or it won’t be that bad…and then we’ll end up like the good old Australian parable about the drunk and the crocodile!
