WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."

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   The moral of this fable of Aesop's is, "the tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny." This is a true saying which could be taken on a number of different routes. As for me though, I am reminded of a great tyrant, Sin. No matter how much reasoning you conjure up, Sin will always prevail. You can tell yourself that yelling and making hand gestures at the person who just cut you off going 83 mph will benefit nothing, but yet, with all of the arguments against it, Sin, like a tyrant, will swoop in and eat, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."

   Without Christ, it seems that Oscar Wilde was right, "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." But in Christ we are a new creation, we are not under the dominion of Sin, but are slaves to Christ. We can stand, not on our own reason, but on faith in Christ; mortifying ourselves daily and meditating on the written word. "Here, consecrated water flows to quench [the] thirst of sin."