For the past three days I've been trapping and relocating squirrels so they won't eat all of our tomatoes when they come in. When I see those squirrels in that trap it makes me think about people trapped in sin. I bait the trap with peanut butter which is irresistible to squirrels, Satan baited his trap with a forbidden fruit which he tricked our ancestors Adam and Eve into eating which caused us all to be born into sin. After the squirrel takes the bait the doors drop shut, trapping it and it jumps back and forth in the trap trying to get out and just wears it's self out. A person trapped in sin flails around in it for a while but then accepts it for normalcy and lives with it. The squirrel I caught yesterday didn't want to leave the cage when I tried to set it free, similarly, most people don't don't want to admit that they are caught up in sin and are content to just stay where they are. I had to poke at the cage with a stick to get the squirrel out and the Holy Spirit pokes at our hearts to get us to confess Jesus and let go of sin's bondage. The squirrel took off running into it's new home, never looking back at that trap that it came out of. A sinner (if they choose) accepts the gift of freedom and eternal life by confessing Jesus and being baptized, never to look back at that trap of sin we once called home.
I'm so grateful to be free from that trap and I want so desperately for everyone who's still caught to look to that open door which is Jesus and go through Him into their new, free home.
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