Stick Like a Leech

UV 792/10,000 Stick Like a Leech The leech has two suckers that cry out, "More, more!" There are three things that are never satisfied--no, four that never say, "Enough!": Proverbs 30 v 15 People resemble leeches in our drive for more and more of money, material goods, fame and pleasure. Nobody knows how much of each of these is enough and turns out to be big time suckers. Yet we do not have enough love, enough peace, enough joy and enough grace. These will come when we show leech-like properties in sticking to the Lord, sticking to His Word, sticking to His presence and sticking to His Spirit. We can never say we have had enough of these. We must cling to what is good and positive and noble and true like a leech. We must let go of what is evil. The leech knows by instinct what is good for it and what produces warm blood for it to suck. Similarly, the Lord has given us discernment to know what is good and what is evil. Just as salt makes a leech let go of a person, animal or object, the Word of God acts as the salt to wean us away literally from what is not pleasing to the Lord. An excess of monetary or material blessings or an excess of popularity or fame, more than we need or more than we can use will cause us to bloat up like a continually sucking leech and burst. When we come across super rich or super glamourous persons, we can tell ourselves, “ Here is a big-time sucker. He or she has no idea when he or she will burst like an over-inflated balloon." The Lord will show us how much we need. At that point, we should know how to say, “ Thank you, Lord. It is enough.” We just need to stick to Him like a leech and suck in His Word on a constant basis. We can ask for more and more of His spiritual wisdom and more and more of His power, grace and mercy to be manifest in our lives. The more we have of these, we will not swell up but we will diminish and He will increase. In the kingdom of God, less is more and more is less. We should focus on getting more spiritual suckers and suction pads working all the time in our lives. Prateep V Philip