• The Glue Trap Of Lust

  Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Methodist

THE GLUE TRAP OF LUST

Adam Hamilton tells the story of moving into his house after it was built only to discover that it was infested with mice. So he got glue traps which have a scent that attracts the mice. They step on it and then are stuck. Then the mice need to be killed and disposed of. He was very successful in using them until he found a mice struggling to free itself and actually gnawing off its foot to do so. And then he writes, "When I think about lust and its power in our lives, it smells good, feels good and looks good. And we find ourselves stuck in the glue trap. We pull and try to get away and we can’t quite break free. We die a slow and painful death when we’re in the glue trap."

And that’s what happens to us.