Hide and Seek With a Spider

  [368 words] As I made my coffee one morning, I noticed the movement of a brown object down on the floor. It was big enough to catch my eye and big enough to make me jump. It was a large (silver dollar-sized) spider that quickly ran and took refuge under a chair. While I told myself it was no big deal, I found myself looking under that chair every couple of minutes, and imagining that I saw movement. As I waited for the spider, in his quest for blood, to come and either end my life or make me scream and run out of the room, I began to ponder this thought: The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion (Prov. 28:1). Consider some thoughts about this verse:  Sin is a liability to living a peaceful life. Some live sinful lives constantly…