LOSS OF FELLOWSHIP
I am told that farmers practice a procedure that is designed to teach a dog who kills chickens to stop the practice. He ties a chicken the dog has killed around the dog’s neck and lets him carry it around until it sickens him and the appeal is gone and the habit is broken. This serves as an excellent illustration of how God sometimes lets us endure the consequences of sin so the sin’s appeal is lost. After using this illustration one Sunday to show the effect of unconfessed sin on David after his affair with Bathsheba, a lady in our church sent me the following story from her childhood on the farm: “We had a dog which doubled as a pet and a workdog to drive cows, pigs, etc. . . He began killing chickens and Daddy tied the dead carcass around his neck in hopes of curing him. Instead of being ashamed, Skippy lay down by it and quietly…
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