A PIG & A LAMB

“But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” (2 Peter 2:22)

A farmer gave his favourite pig a bath so that it would look and smell clean at the county fair. Someone left a gate open and that pig headed down the road searching for adventure. A strong wind blew the pig off the road and into the ditch. In the ditch was garbage, a bad smell, and thick mud. When the pig realised where he was he began thinking to himself “this is heaven on earth, this is exactly where I want to be.” Why? Because it is a pig’s nature to wallow in mud.

A lamb strayed from the flock and wandered down the road. A strong wind blew the lamb off the road and into the ditch where there was garbage, a bad smell, and thick mud. When the lamb realised where he was he began struggling to get out of the ditch, and when he saw that he couldn’t get out he began crying out for the shepherd. Why? Because it is not a sheep’s nature to wallow in mud.

Before you insist that you would take your fill of sin or give up living a Christian life if you did not believe that merely committing sin means the loss of salvation, stop, and think about what this implies about you. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:27) “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (II Corinthians 5:17) “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.” (Titus 2:11-12) “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” (Hebrews 12:5-11) "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." (1 John 2:19) “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” (1 John 3:3)