How to boil a frog

You’ve probably heard this old parable about how to boil a frog.

If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will leap out right away to escape the danger. BUT, if you put a frog in a pot that is filled with water that is cool and pleasant, and then gradually heat the water until it starts boiling, the frog will not become aware of the threat until it is too late.

There are lots of ways to apply this little story, but I’m thinking about how easy and dangerous it is to slowly become desensitized to things in our life. We gradually allow the unacceptable to become accepted.

Do you see that?

Old Isaiah did (5:20).

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.