THE PITCHER PLANT

A STORY FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES I FOUND

There is a beautiful looking plant called the pitcher plant, which grows in most tropical parts of the world. A pitcher is a kind of jug, and the ends of the leaves of this plant are pitcher-shaped. They are small at the bottom and larger at the top.

The pitcher plant produces a special liquid which attracts insects to itself and which they like very much. Some pitcher plants are as small as two inches, but others are as big as twenty inches and some of these may contain as much as two pints of liquid.

When insects come near the pitcher, they are attracted by it's bright colors andy by the smell of the liquid. They begin to drink the tasty liquid around the rim but soon, wanting more and more of this nice liquid, they crawl down further and further in the plant, where it is more plentiful. Finally they lose their foothold and fall down into the liquid.

Slippery little fibres pointing downward on the inside of the plant make the going down very easy, but they stop the way out. When theinsect tries to climb out of the plant, these little spikes are like an army of swords lined up against it. Escape is impossible, The insect struggles but it's strength is soon used up, and at last it drowns in the very thing it so much desired.

What a picture this is, young people, of the way of sin and Satan. They would tempt us by what looks so nice and seems so good at the time, but in the end it traps us and destroys us. The little insects are decieved by the plant with it's sweet-tasting liquid. They think that the plant has something nice to offer them, but they find out too late that it takes away all they have--it even takes away their lives.

So it is with sin and Satan. They are deceivers. It is said of Satan, in Revelation 12:9, that he deceives the whole world. The Word of God warns us against the "deceitfulness of sin" in Hebrews 3:3. To be deceived means to be fooled. You think that you are going to get something nice, and it seems enjoyable for a while, but then things change and your are, instead, a prisoner. The deceiving things of sin and Satan may taste sweet for a time but they will soon turn bitter. You will be held as Satan's prisoner and you will be with him in hell.

But we have all sinned and have been caught in Satan's snares, and there is only One who can save us from Satan's prison. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. He died on the cross for sinners and there paid the debt for sin. The wages of sin, which is death, He has endured for His people. So allwho receive Him as their Saviour are freed from the judgment of eternal death.

Author Unknown

Where are you? Are you running after Satan's sweet-tasting, deceiving sins and held captive by him? OR are you saved, set free by Jesus Christ and serving Him? Be warned by the pitcher plant!!!!