11/25/12 MAD AS A HORNET
One day, in my college science class, while dissecting the piglet on my table, my attention was drawn to the life and death struggle taking place in the window box next to me.
One day, in my college science class, while dissecting the piglet on my table, my attention was drawn to the life and death struggle taking place in the window box next to me.
A wasp had flown into a spider web. He tried to free himself by sheer power, only to entangle himself more.
He responded to his captivity by a final and violent surge.
It was over. I saw first hand what it meant to be, "as mad as a hornet."
When he was finally secured by the spider's silky shackles, the captor came in and gave the wasp a paralyzing bite, then encased it in a silky shroud.
Remember,
the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness God (Ja. 1:20), and
man is bound by whatever overcomes him (2 Pe. 2:19).
James 1:19-22 (20)
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
2 Peter 2:18-20 (19)
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
2 Peter 2:18-20 (19)
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
