Dipping your toes in the pond of adversity…
“And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.”
– Acts 16:22-24 (KJV)
They’ll be lost. “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.” – Revelation 3:5 (NKJV)
The view is very limited. “He requested for himself that he might die.” – 1 Kings 19:4 (KJV)
[1.Kings 4:33] And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
They wanted to give to God. “Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” – 2 Corinthians 9:10 (NASB)
The act was inappropriate. “The wages of sin is death.” – Romans 6:23 (KJV)
Integrity demands it. “The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is man’s precious possession.” – Proverbs 12:27 (NKJV)