On Thanksgiving weekend, mom, dad and I got to stay home one night to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner. Mom made crab... yummy. While I was enjoying myself tearing the crab open to get to the delicious meat, I noticed barnacles were growing on the crab.
That got me thinking. The barnacle must have thought it had it made - riding on an armour cladded crab, with no worries and well fed. It hung on to the crab with all it's might. A barnacle larva cements itself headfirst to a surface (the shell of the crab) and then undergoes metamorphosis into a juvenile barnacle. Barnacles develop hard armour plates to surround and protect their bodies. For the rest of their lives they are cemented to the crab, using their feathery legs to capture plankton and gametes when spawning.The bond the barnacles use to attach themselves to the surface is one of the strongest substance know in the world. Therefore, to the barnacle riding on the crab, as long as it hangs on it has no worries.
Little did it knew that the crab would end up on my dinner table.
We can learn a lot from that barnacle. We, too, have a tendency to hang on to what we feel secure. We spend our lives reenforcing our grips on those things. But these things we hold on to, will they last? Or will it be thrown into the fire like what happened to the crab?
The apostle Peter reminds us of this, in 2 Peter 3:10-13:
What will you hold on to?10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
11Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
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