While cleaning out a long-neglected drawer, I was rewarded to find a blog my deceased husband wrote several years ago. I share it with you here.
“I was pleased this summer to have an abundant crop of raspberries. However, I became frustrated with the bugs. They like my raspberries, too. In fact, they love my raspberries! They cling to them.”
To cling is “to grip tightly, refusing to let go.”
Something that clings is difficult to get rid of. While washing the raspberries, I made the remark that if only the bugs did not cling so tightly to the raspberries, they would still be alive.
Then I realized, this can apply to people, also. How many people cling to alcohol, tobacco, pornography, gluttony, drugs, greed? Clinging to these can only damage a person.
Romans 12:9 says “Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” (NIV).
The Bible speaks about Jesus Christ saying he “gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever, Amen” (Galatians 1:4). He rescued us so we could quit clinging to the things that bring us death. If we cling to Jesus Christ instead, we can have life everlasting.
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