Spider Web

How do you feel about spiders?

Squish

I am not too fond of arachnids, in fact, just the thought of one makes my lip curl and body quiver. I am not afraid of them, I will rescue them from my pool, or tissue-paper and squish the thing if one is in my house, but I sure don't want to cozy up to any of them!

Yesterday morning, I had this feeling, that I had been in a spiders web? This was a curiosity to me, since it was the first time I had ever felt this way. I looked up what the Bible says about spiders and found these verses:

His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web (Job 8:14).

They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spiders's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched (Isaiah 59:5). 

Woven a web

This past week, I became acutely aware that someone I knew had woven a manipulative web over a span of years, catching people like flies. The interesting thing about a spider, is their seeming patience... they have natural engineering abilities and masterful techniques, and when a person has become a creepy crawling spidery thing, they too, patiently weave, one strand after the next, building their web, knowing that innocent victims that happen to fly into their trap, will feel stuck, struggle and get gluey, only to have the spider suddenly appear and quick step their long legs toward the waiting snack. 

Silky strands

The insidiousness of an arachnid like human, can only be assessed and determined after the silky strands have been wiped away, and the would be victim as been released from the web of destructive deception. Without their web, the spidery scheme is destroyed, and the leggy insect will scramble and hustle, looking for its previous place of prey trapping and tracking. 

A spider without a web must recover and rebuild: they cannot help themselves, that's what spiders do to maintain food supply and satisfy their thirst for life force sucked from their victims. They are predatory by nature: so too, are the human spider-like people you may encounter in your life. They are scary and sinister, sneaking around behind the scenes, producing row upon row of lies, while attempting to manipulate the thoughts and feelings of their prey, entrapping slowly and almost ever so sweetly... 

See their fangs

Fangs are dangerous: run!

You don't know you have met a spider-like human until they strike up close and personal: with this in your face view, their sharpened and oft used fangs become evident. This is when they have the least power, weakened in their exposure: would be victims can look at them with a sense of wonder, in awe of how the spider has entrapped itself neatly in its own web of constructed deception. Thing is, they don't even realized they have wrapped themselves round and round with their own silky rope, because after all, they are spiders. 

The difference between an eight legged spider, and the spider-like-two-legged human variety, is conscience: while an actual arachnid is guilt free for using the natural abilities God has given it to feed itself, a human is forever and always responsible for the misuse of Gods gifts, especially when they are utilized to wound and devour other humans. This type of predator goes against Gods code, His laws for how humans are to treat one another.

The spidery human, is a con artist, without a conscience... truly a dangerous predator: once you know who you are dealing with, it is wise to stay clear from their webby traps and soul puncturing fangs! 

I end with this scripture: a request of God, and a brief description of how to spot a spider-like human:

Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear (Psalm 64:2-4).