What is your nature?
This morning I chanced upon something that made me pause and think for a while. Sometimes we become so independent that we forget we are reliant on God’s grace. We try so much to be on our own and act as if we don’t need anything from God. Sometimes we just can’t help it, it’s in our nature.
I got this from my daily dose of Kerygma:
Two monks were walking across a riverbank, when the old monk saw a scorpion trapped between two rocks. The scorpion was desperately trying to free itself from the angry current. In a gesture of immense compassion, the old monk reached out to the scorpion. However, each time his hand came close to the creature, it would attack him with its tail, inflicting pain on the holy man.
After so many attempts the monk was finally able to set the scorpion free. The younger monk was shocked by what he just saw. “Brother,” he gasped, his eyes wide on the sore, almost crimson hand, “are you insane?”
“My dear brother,” the old one smiled, “while it is in that creature’s nature to sting, it is in my nature to save.”
Too many times we have chosen the dark over the light.
Too many times we have chosen death over life.
Too many times we have chosen our way, and not God’s.
Yet Jesus, like the old monk, remains loving and forgiving to us all — even if we act like the young monk.
Or the scorpion.
Whether you are the young monk, or the scorpion (I tend to be both at some point), God, Jesus’ nature is to save and love us. Even if we resist, fight, run away. That’s an assurance we should never forget.
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