Worldly Desires
I grew more until I was seven feet tall. I was still very thin. It was spring, and I had a few blossoms, but not many. The rabbits and deer from the Forest Folly came to me and nibbled at my pink flowers and my fresh, thin branches. One of the rabbits burrowed under my roots, and made himself at home. They skipped around me. They were so beautiful. I loved to watch them play and move. I wished I could be like them. My spirit became discontent with being a stationary tree. When the Farmer came to see me, He saw the wild animals and scared them away. I was angry with Him. I wanted to watch them. The Farmer told me what they were doing to me. He showed me the weakness under my roots where the rabbit had burrowed. He showed me the scattered flower pedals on the ground, how they were trampled and brown. He showed me that my young branches would soon be ruined and I would bare no fruit at all if the deer continued to nibble. I was ashamed of myself. I should have seen what they were doing to me. I repented to the Farmer, and He helped me, mending my branches, and He put a wire fence around me to keep the wild animals away.
James 4:4~ “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of God.”
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