“I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves” (Luke 10:10).
A few years ago, “Rotarian” magazine told the story of a certain organization that offered a bounty of $5,000 each for wolves captured alive. It turned Sam and Jed into fortune hunters. Day and night they scoured the mountains and the forests looking for their valuable prey. Exhausted one night, they fell asleep on the ground, dreaming of their potential fortune. Suddenly, Sam awoke to see that they were surrounded by at least fifty angry wolves with flaming eyes and bared teeth. Sam nudged his companion and said, “Jed, wake up! We’re rich!”
During the United States’ Great Depression, many wealthy persons who had lost everything gave personal testimonies which said that they had not begun to discover what life was all about until their fortunes had been wiped out and they had to “begin all over again.” Why must the greedy wait for disaster to strike and for when the “wolves…
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