Fish masquerading as a crab
There are imitations everywhere and one of them has always kind of made me laugh and wonder, why? Why imitation crab meat? If you have ever looked at this fish masquerading as crab, you will notice that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths to make the product look like it has come right out of a crab shell. How come? If you have tasted crab and then try the imitation, you will notice that they are not at all comparable. Real crab meat is far more tastebud satisfying.
This is a game of bait and switch
Reading product labels reveals ingredient truth and I think this is where the trick has been played on the would be crab eater. When labels aren't read, the uninitiated crab meat eater is susceptible to trickery. Look around you, the real thing or cheap copies can be found everywhere. Imitation is a form of lying, misrepresentation. For the uninformed, this is a game of bait and switch. I hold the world suspect, don't you?
The hefty price of fakery and fraud
What are we buying, swallowing whole that is making us sick? What is the hefty price we pay for all the fakery and fraud we are sold? Look at your beliefs, dear reader, what are you buying that someone else is selling that leaves you hungry for the real, the original? It is up to you, up to me to sense, feel, and discern the difference:
"The ear tests words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods" (Job 12:11). Nature doesn't lie, man on the other hand, he has a lot of explaining to do. Look for yourself, a crab comes in its own packaging, it's own shell and if put in a tin for sale, one ingredient would be listed, crab meat. Not so for the imitation version.
Are you following a stranger?
Let's go now to where I am pointing us: there is One man who said he is I Am, One man who boldly stated that he is God, The Alpha & Omega, Beginning & End. He said he is the Gate, The Good Shepherd and here is the grandest message for us to receive today:
"Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice" (John 10:1-5).
Can you hear his voice, calling you by name? He knows each one of his lambs and they know him. A thief, a robber, these cannot trick nor steal the sheep. The sheep hear with their hearts, and listen with their minds and follow The Original. Dare I list the thieves masquerading as alternatives, other gateways to heaven? Are you considering them now, dear reader? Imitation or real crab meat, which do you prefer? Imitation or real God, which do you prefer? Don't like crab meat or God? I guess that too, is a choice.
There are imitations everywhere and one of them has always kind of made me laugh and wonder, why? Why imitation crab meat? If you have ever looked at this fish masquerading as crab, you will notice that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths to make the product look like it has come right out of a crab shell. How come? If you have tasted crab and then try the imitation, you will notice that they are not at all comparable. Real crab meat is far more tastebud satisfying.
This is a game of bait and switch
Reading product labels reveals ingredient truth and I think this is where the trick has been played on the would be crab eater. When labels aren't read, the uninitiated crab meat eater is susceptible to trickery. Look around you, the real thing or cheap copies can be found everywhere. Imitation is a form of lying, misrepresentation. For the uninformed, this is a game of bait and switch. I hold the world suspect, don't you?The hefty price of fakery and fraud
What are we buying, swallowing whole that is making us sick? What is the hefty price we pay for all the fakery and fraud we are sold? Look at your beliefs, dear reader, what are you buying that someone else is selling that leaves you hungry for the real, the original? It is up to you, up to me to sense, feel, and discern the difference:
"The ear tests words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods" (Job 12:11). Nature doesn't lie, man on the other hand, he has a lot of explaining to do. Look for yourself, a crab comes in its own packaging, it's own shell and if put in a tin for sale, one ingredient would be listed, crab meat. Not so for the imitation version.
Are you following a stranger?
Let's go now to where I am pointing us: there is One man who said he is I Am, One man who boldly stated that he is God, The Alpha & Omega, Beginning & End. He said he is the Gate, The Good Shepherd and here is the grandest message for us to receive today:
"Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice" (John 10:1-5).
Can you hear his voice, calling you by name? He knows each one of his lambs and they know him. A thief, a robber, these cannot trick nor steal the sheep. The sheep hear with their hearts, and listen with their minds and follow The Original. Dare I list the thieves masquerading as alternatives, other gateways to heaven? Are you considering them now, dear reader? Imitation or real crab meat, which do you prefer? Imitation or real God, which do you prefer? Don't like crab meat or God? I guess that too, is a choice.
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