Always Seeking

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).

The TRUE LIGHT that gives light to every man has come into the world (Jn 1:9) 

Because of His great love for us, God sent His Light into the world to save us from sin, from darkness.  Jesus said, "I am the LIGHT of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the LIGHT of LIFE."  Jesus is the LIGHT that reveals the Way to ETERNAL LIFE with God (John 14:6).

To follow Jesus we must: believe in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from sin in  repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) in His name for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16).  
Then as we faithfully “WALK in the LIGHT” of His word, His blood will continue to cleanse us from sin (1 John 1:7).

The Scriptures speak of those who are “EVER LEARNING"  but never able 
to come to the knowledge of the Truth” (2 Timothy 3:7).

Man has ALWAYS been seeking… Have YOU found THE Light?

David A. Sargent, Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

* “Vagary” -- an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion (Webster’s Dictionary)

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