Burying the problem?

A man purchased a white mouse to use as food for his pet snake. He dropped the unsuspecting mouse into the snake's glass cage, where the snake was sleeping in a bed of sawdust. The tiny mouse had a serious problem on his hands. At any moment he could be swallowed alive.

Obviously, the mouse needed to come up with a brilliant plan. What did the terrified creature do? He quickly set up work covering the snake with sawdust chips until it was completely buried. With that, the mouse apparently thought he had solved his problem.

The solution, however, came from outside. The man took pity on the silly little mouse and removed him from the cage. No matter how hard the mouse tried to cover the snake, the threat was still there.

Even so, we can seek to avoid sin, cover it, or simply dismiss it, but the threat of sin is still in our lives. In order to be free from it, we must reckon ourselves dead to it. We must look to Christ for the victory and realize we are alive in Him!

Source: Daily in the Word, June 11, 2008