Crawdads

When I was a kid, me and my brothers would go out behind our house to the creek and catch crawdads. We used my little brother’s cloth diaper as a net to catch them. And no, he wasn’t still in the diaper. And no, he had more than one diaper. We had a metal pail to put them in. The pail had no lid, but the crawdads never got out. Let me explain. With the pail full of water and the pail with more and more crawdads, you would think that they could scramble out. But they didn’t. Whenever one would climb on top of the others to reach up to the rim of the pail, another crawdad would pull it back down. They never worked together to get out, they just pulled at each other so that none could get out. Hey, isn’t that the way we are? We are more concerned about selfishly keeping each other down that we fail to lend a helping hand to help other people get out. Aren’t you glad that Jesus took the low road? Aren’t you glad that Jesus thought of others above Himself? Read Philippians 2 and examine the example that Jesus set for us. Then go and help a needy world. After all, Jesus did.