We don't seem to see rats much any more. Have you seen a big ugly rat lately? Rats are ugly, dirty, and do a lot of damage. They love to browse around in the kitchen.
We had one in the small kitchen in the house in Riobamba. Gladis and I and Dottie Brown were in the kitchen. We closed the door, and we each got a broomstick and went after that rat. I got it cornered and poked my stick at him and he came right up the stick at me. I dropped the stick and the rat ran over Gladis' foot and she screamed and after a while I got a good swing and hit it and we killed it.
The story I have for this morning is about a rat in the church. Ray Zuercher and I went to a small country village for a service. One of the nationals was to do the speaking. The room was a nice large room. They didn't have nice pews, but benches with no backs. Along the wall there were benches and one could have the wall as a back. The walls were board on the outside and the framing was on the inside. The boards of the walls were vertical and there was a two-by-four across the middle. This was just right to lean against if you were on a bench along the wall.
The preacher was long winded. He went on and on. All the children were fast asleep on the floor, and most of us grownups were almost asleep or wishing that we were. He had been preaching about an hour when I saw a movement on the other side of the room.
It was a rat and it was walking along on the two-by-four between the backs of the people and the wall. He came around and nobody even payed any attention to it. It came creeping between the wall and the backs of those people and they didn't even seem to notice it. Around it came, then started on the wall I where I was sitting. When it got to me, I jumped up and let it pass. Everyone woke up and laughed. The preacher finished his teaching and we all went home.
I was amazed that no one ever thought to get that rat. They were so used to them that they didn't pay any attention to them.
Lesson...
You know what boys and girls? We live in a very dirty world. The people use dirty words, dirty stories, and filthy vile language is everywhere. We have gotten so used to it that it doesn't seem to move us, we don't even react. But dirty words, filthy habits, will have a very bad effect on us. We need to react to these and stay away from those who use those dirty words.
It is so common that we live with the rats and are contaminated by their filth and this is not pleasing to the Lord. Beloved keep your mouths clean and your hearts pure before the Lord your God. Close your ears to the swearing and cursing of your friends. Ask the Lord to help you every day to keep your words clean and your heart pure.
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