Always Seeking
This is used by permission from its author David Sargent. He is my first cousin and writes a weekly article also. He preaches in Mobile, AL. He and his family are great servants of the kingdom.
Mel Ellis, an expert on wildlife and conservation, has written a little book of fables in which he examines the world around him with a naturalist's eye and celebrates what he sees with a poet's vision. The forty-sixth and last fable in the book unfolds in a little dialogue between the author and his daughter:
Daughter: “Now that I have read your fables I am disappointed because you gave no space to the ‘new morality.’”
Father: “Well, there are many, many things I did not touch on. As for morality, almost every generation claims a new morality. It is a vagary.” *
Daughter: “I'm not quite sure I understand.”
Father: “Consider the climbing vines. Honeysuckle, for instance, always twines clockwise, to its right. Jasmine always twines counterclockwise, to its left. Nothing can make either do otherwise. Yet there is one twining plant -- Scyphanthus Elegans -- which will start turning in one direction, making a couple of loops around its support, and then go back the other way, reversing itself every couple of loops or so.”
Daughter: “Well it would seem that is the most interesting way to climb.”
Father: “Most interesting, perhaps, but not a very tidy system.”
Daughter: “I still don't get the point.”
Father: “The point is that no matter how vines climb, whether to the left or to the right, or both ways, each is always seeking the same thing.”
Daughter: “And that is?”
Father: “Light.” **
Even so, no matter how each of us “climbs,” whether to the left or to the right, whether the corporate ladder or the social ladder, whether to economic heights or professional plateaus, we are all seeking the same thing: Light! That “Light” is God (1 John 1:5).
God “gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one, every nation
of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, SO THAT - they should SEEK THE LORD, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; ‘for IN HIM we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:25-27).
Daughter: “Now that I have read your fables I am disappointed because you gave no space to the ‘new morality.’”
Father: “Well, there are many, many things I did not touch on. As for morality, almost every generation claims a new morality. It is a vagary.” *
Daughter: “I'm not quite sure I understand.”
Father: “Consider the climbing vines. Honeysuckle, for instance, always twines clockwise, to its right. Jasmine always twines counterclockwise, to its left. Nothing can make either do otherwise. Yet there is one twining plant -- Scyphanthus Elegans -- which will start turning in one direction, making a couple of loops around its support, and then go back the other way, reversing itself every couple of loops or so.”
Daughter: “Well it would seem that is the most interesting way to climb.”
Father: “Most interesting, perhaps, but not a very tidy system.”
Daughter: “I still don't get the point.”
Father: “The point is that no matter how vines climb, whether to the left or to the right, or both ways, each is always seeking the same thing.”
Daughter: “And that is?”
Father: “Light.” **
Even so, no matter how each of us “climbs,” whether to the left or to the right, whether the corporate ladder or the social ladder, whether to economic heights or professional plateaus, we are all seeking the same thing: Light! That “Light” is God (1 John 1:5).
God “gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one, every nation
of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, SO THAT - they should SEEK THE LORD, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; ‘for IN HIM we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:25-27).
* “Vagary” -- an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion (Webster’s Dictionary)
** Ellis, M., "Sermons In Stone," Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Adapted).
** Ellis, M., "Sermons In Stone," Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Adapted).
posted by Sid Dye at
1:26 PM
1 Comments:
That was interesting. Perhaps the fact that opposing brothers are both seeking the Light was the reason Paul wrote Rom.14 to say, you two are after the same thing so lighten up when it comes to each other, your strong opinions, and the way you treat each other.
Thanks for sharing that with us.
BTW-
I'm a friend of Keith Davis. God bless.
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