Watch Out for the Traps

[349 words] Once there was a little fly who saw a spider’s web in the corner of the room. “I’ll fly away from it,” he thought; “For if I should get one foot in it I might get two, and soon I would be caught all together.” Wasn’t this little fly a wise fellow? In the same room was a little girl who had broken a vase. Something whispered in her ear, “Hide the pieces and don’t tell mother.” “No, no!” she said. “If I should deceive mother once, I might again, and pretty soon I should be telling lies. I won’t begin.” Wasn’t she a wise little girl? Notice these words from Hebrews 12:1-2: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience…