Venus Fly Traps

To add to my blog on Insecta-Palooza:  the Venus Fly Trap gave me a picture of how temptation and sin work together.  The sweet sticky liquid looked so good, promised so much.  Temptation looks beautiful, sweet, fun, rewarding.  We are enticed and lured into sin which captures and holds us prisoner.  Like a fly, we enter into temptation to sip the sweetness we thought was there and find ourselves stuck and sinking into acid that dissolves our character and devours our lives. 

The Venus fly trap is beautiful; a stunning creation of God.  So is Satan, one of the most beautiful creatures God created.  His outward appearance covers the evil pride of his inner being.  Satan knows how mankind loves and is drawn to beauty.  He makes sin look beautiful, too, until we give in to it and see it for what it really is, and remember Satan is a liar and a murderer and will never change.   He hates God and stabs at the heart of heaven by fooling, corrupting and taking His children captive. 

Look to Jesus.  He is Truth.   When we cry out to Him, He rescues us.  He washed the sickening sweetness and acid of sin away and indwells us with His Holy Spirit so we can avoid the traps Satan sets for us.  We see the world through new eyes.  We can fly free.