- Like oxen, ministers should be provided for, as they go about their work (1 Corinthians 9:9, 10)
- False Prophets are like dogs that eat their own vomit and pigs that wallow in the mud (2 Peter 2:22)
- We are all like sheep in that we stray and go our own way (Isaiah 53:6) but the saved are like sheep gathered into one flock with Christ as their Shepherd (John 10:14, 28)
- Self Righteous Pharisees are like snakes, devious and sly (Matthew 23:33)
- Those who wait on the Lord, like eagles will soar through the air (Isaiah 40:31)
- As fish are caught in a net so evangelists catch people by drawing them to Christ (Mark 1:17)
- Believers are to be as wise as snakes and as gentle as doves (Matthew 10:16)
- Ants warn us against laziness, giving the good eample of storing up food for the winter (Proverbs 5:6-11)
- There are many lessons to learn from lions including the fact that the devil is like one in that he prowla around looking to pick off an indiivudal to attack (1 Peter 5:8) and tat once dea they are nothing to be afraid of (Ecclesiastes 9:4)
- Goats may well look like sheep but they point to unbeoeivers and when the Shepherd separates the sheep and goats the goats will go away to eternal destruction (Matthew 25:31-33, 41-4
This blog contains meditations on the Ten topics taken from George Swinnock and set out in the introductory post and on a separate page elsewhere.