It Won't Bite The Hand That Feeds It.

Recently I was sitting watching the Sting Rays being fed at the local aquarium. I had never seen this before and was quite intrigued.

Our narrator - for want of a better word- was talking about how the divers were safe because the Rays knew they were coming to feed them. But they also said that they divers were safe because the Rays wouldn't sting unless they felt threatened.

These were not small baby rays, as you can see by the video, some are quite big in comparison to the divers.

It made me think a bit about sin.... At first sin can seem harmless enough..."Of course I don't bite I don't have teeth." Just like the toothless Rays....but their jaws are exceptionally powerful and can cause incredible damage....even though they appear to have comical smiling faces.

Sin too will be you friend, you buddy as long as you feed it. It will let you hang around and pet it and won't appear menacing as long as you keep feeding that thing.

But if you threaten it, it will act provoked and attack with its sting...... One of the greatest struggles you go through is when you decided to actively turn away and repent of deliberate sin. That comical sweet gently floating ray called sin will go into attack mode. It is impossible to be free on your own....But Thank God we have victory IN and THROUGH Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:56-57
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.