Some sermons, or at least the sermon titles, just get stuck in my mind. An experienced preacher will often give their message a catchy title to help drive the point home.
I’ll never forget a sermon the Reverend Ronnie Beeler once preached which he entitled, “Wallowing Around Under a Log with the Mully Grubs.”
I’m fairly sure Reverend Beeler just made up the word “mully,” but I understood what he meant, having turned over many logs as a boy searching for fishing bait.
Turning over an old log exposes corruption and the darkness of decay. Under that log one will find sawdust, red worms, termites, ants, pill bugs (rollie pollies), spiders, loose dirt and of course the aforementioned “grub worms,” all wallowing around in the loose compost.
If we constantly dwell on the depressing things going on in the world today it’s very tempting to just crawl in bed and sort of give up. We are living in an age when large corporations are persecuting our Christian beliefs and it seems like many Christians are oblivious to the persecution.
These conglomerates are promoting unbiblical lifestyles as company policies, and opposing those views on fundamental religious principles can be cause for termination. Even the media and our government are labeling any dissenting opinions as a potential hate crime.
In all this turmoil a Christian can feel quite forsaken. On top of all that, sickness and death seem to be the lead story for every news service.
Nearly every place we look it seems as if the entire world is subject to the bondage of corruption.
Just writing about all the misery in the world has me tempted to hunt for my own grub worm farm to crawl under. Tempted yes, but yielding to the temptation? NO!
So what does the Bible have to say about the situation?
2 Corinthians 4:6-18 KJV
[6] For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
[7] But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
[8] We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
[9] Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
[10] Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
[11] For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
[12] So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
[13] We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
[14] Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
[15] For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
[16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
[17] For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
[18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, don’t be deceived by the darkness under that log, jump on top of that log and let the Light shine.