While a man was swimming at a popular swimming hole in a river, he noticed that people starting to get out of the water. Not wanting to get out the water but concerned that an alligator might have found his way down river, he hollered to someone on the shore. "Are there any alligators in this river?"
"No not a single one," assured a man who was standing on the shore nearby.
The swimmer was still disturbed. Again he asked: "If there are no alligators, what are those gray forms I see? Are you sure there are no alligators?"
Certainly," replied this newly-made friend who was standing on the shore. "Those gray forms you see are sharks that have chased the alligators away."
There is the tendency for persons nowadays to think technology, education, psychology, or medicine can solve all of our problems. So often, though, all we do is swap alligators for sharks. There are a lot of things out there that claim to be the solution to our problems, but there is only one thing that is guaranteed to work—that is the words and wisdom given to us from God our father. So next time you are trying to handle a problem, turn to him first and don't swap alligators for sharks.
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