Crawdads

 

When I was a kid, my brothers and I would go out behind our house and down 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: the pail was full of water and full of crawdads, and you would think that they could scramble out.  But they didn’t.  Whenever one crawdad would climb on top of the others to reach up to the rim of the pail, another crawdad on the bottom would pull it back down.  They never worked together to get out, they just pulled each other back down so that none of them 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 out.  Paul said in Galatians 5:14&15, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”  Aren’t you glad that Jesus took the low road?  Aren’t you glad that Jesus thought of others above Himself?  Read Philippians 2 to see the example that Jesus set for us.  Then go and meet the needs of others.  After all, Jesus did.