AN EGG, A WATERMELLON AND A DIRTY BABY

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Sometime, somewhere, in the long ago someone took one look at an egg, tasted it’s shell, examined its texture and hardness and said to themselves, “This is worthless,” and then threw it away. It was, indeed, many many back in time but I have no doubt it happened. People throw away good and gracious things all the time.

Once upon a time someone picked up a heavy watermelon and ran their tongue along its greenness. It was heavy, ungainly and obviously unacceptable as an eatable. It had not passed a multiple of tests and so it obviously was of no use and so they threw it away. People with faulty observations and faulty conclusions throw good and gracious things away all the time.

The baby was dirty, dirtier than any baby had been in a long long while and so when the bath was finished the water was filthy. And someone then threw the baby out with the bathwater, the water so dirty they couldn’t see him. This I doubt. But it is an old saying “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

People do this with faith. They see the faithless in the midst of the faithful. They concentrate on the hypocrite. They demand that Christians be perfect and when they reach wrong conclusions because of faulty observations they pass an eternal faith by because of temporal men leaving wrong impressions. Ah yes, good and gracious and in this case a great thing is thrown away. Why? Because people do this kind of thing all the time.

And you and me? Well, people are watching us. Always watching us and noting how much difference there is between our words and our deeds or very little difference at all. And if we are not careful we will lead people to throw away their faith…it shouldn’t be but it happens…

There is a kind of twisted logic about this kind of thinking and that is the problem. It is a twisted logic. It forgets that as I have said many many times the church is not a country club of saints but a congregation of sinners. And throwing out the fundamentals along with the foolish really is foolish.

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” (Francis Bacon, Sr.)

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