YOU HAVE BEEN BAITED

Cute little guy isn't he?

This is something that many of you will not understand.

But several different times in my life these little guys

have been a real bother or pain to me.  They can be 

very destructive, to say nothing of the germs they can

spread.

Now I am not like most of you.  I do not have the time,

patience or resources to kill them with kindness.  They

would have everything destroyed and germs spread all

around before I could get them stopped that way.

SO,

I have had to resort to "poison".

Just a quicker way to kill them with kindness.

For my circumstances the poison shown above has been

very effective.  For myself the pelleted form has worked 

best.

It is hard to see in the image above.  But the word

"palatable" is used regarding this poison.  Now

palatable=

delicious, appetizing, tasty, savory.

So, I bait them with "Tomcat".

When I have to start using this poison to control

a rat situation,  they simply can't get enough of 

the stuff.  I have to ration it out or that large bucket

full would be all gone in a few days.

But that is enough.

This stuff has "diphacinone" in it.

The diphacinone is highly toxic and causes

the blood not to clot.

The result is, after a fews day or a week

the rat will hemorrhage internally.  He

will literally bleed to death internally.

Yes, the rat really enjoyed him/her self for

a few days.  But that indulgence killed it.

Do you know you are being baited just like

those rats were.

Most of that palatable stuff that comes

out of Hollywood or from the current 

crop of politicians has a spiritual from

of "diphacinone" in it.  You are just eating

it up, and it's killing you.

God tells us to:

"Abstain from every form of evil."

(1 Thessalonians 5:22 NKJV)

i.e.

Don't do it.  Don't even look at it.

But Oh! how we love to watch it

and hear about it.

Even if it is killing us spiritually.

I KILLED IT DEAD

That was a tree or sapling, what ever you want to call it.

It was in the way so I cut it off.

You know what happened.  It sprouted all over and begin

to grow again.  So I cut off all the sprouts.  And as you know

even better than myself.  It sprouted again.

This has got to stop.  Under other conditions I would use a

"come-along", my truck or a sky hook and pull it out - roots

and all.  But you can see it would tear up a bunch of "stuff".

And to spread any poison on it was out of the question.  That

is in a garden bed that is already planted.

I am not smart enough to think of this, so I assume God gave 

me the idea.  I drilled a hole down the middle of the "stump"

about four or five inches.  The hole was a size that I could fit

the funnel tightly into.  Then I put bad stuff for plants into the

funnel.  And for several days it just soaked up the bad stuff.

The picture was taken one week later.  And you can see that

the little tree or sapling is dead, dead.  And there is nothing 

spread into the garden bed.  Thank God for that.

In this case, that little funnel is a head for that sapling.  And

filling the head with "bad stuff" killed it.

I am no different.  If I fill my head with bad stuff it will kill me

too.  Put the wrong stuff in my big mouth and it will kill my 

body.  Soak in the wrong stuff with my eye's or ears and it 

will kill me spiritually.

What kind of trash are we putting into our heads?

"In conclusion, my friends,

fill your minds with those things that

are good and that deserve praise;

things that are true, noble, right,

pure, lovely, and honorable."

(Philippians 4:8 GNT)