"concerning rabbits and turtles"

I was saddened recently to find out many of my Christian friends I grew up with that have since turned away from our Lord. Most of them are under the impression that living how the Lord instructs us to live is keeping them from true satisfaction. So I'm writing this new song and I want it to be about how people want to live life in the proverbial "fastlane" and think that anything other than what they want to do, will slow them down. When pondering all this I was reminded of the story about the "tortoise and the Hare". Then I had this really cool thought.

Looking at the two characters the rabbit seems to at first to be the free spirit. With nothing tying him down the rabbit can go anywhere he wants. The rabbit can jump over things out run other animals that might harm him. The rabbit really seems to be over qualified to win the race. Now looking at the turtle we see him bogged down by this huge shell. The turtle is not as fast as the rabbit...he can't jump over things he has to take the long way around them. We all may think sometimes that the moral principals that the Lord gives us hinder or keep us down, much like the shell of the turtle. But in reality the commands that the Lord gives us weren't meant to keep us down, but to protect us from the horrible consequences that come as a result of our sin. So really the Lord's commands, in a sense, set us free from sin when we follow them. So comparing Christians to the turtle the turtle is actually, though it doesn't seem at first glance, the real free spirit and in the best position to win the race.

And as for the tree that the rabbit falls asleep under...Well....lets just call that tree "The Tree of Apathy"

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