Date Eating Man

Maybe an old story about a desert nomad who awakened in the middle of the night can help.  This man sat up, lit a candle, and began eating dates from a bowl beside his bed.  He took a bite from one end and saw a worm in it, so he threw it out of the tent.  He bit into the second date, found another worm, and threw it away also.  Reasoning that he wouldn’t have any dates left to eat if he continued in this way, he blew out the candle and quickly ate all the dates.

Many people love iniquity so much they’d rather swallow their sins and wallow in darkness than to turn on the light of Christ—and light truly does define Christianity.  Ephesians 5:8 says, “For you were once darkness, bit now you are light in the Lord.  Walk as children of light.”  In Philippians 2:15, we’re described as “children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.”

David Jeremiah, Signs of Life, P. 12