Did you ever wonder whether the wormhole in an apple was made from the inside or the outside of the apple? Apple growers tell us the worm bores the hole from the inside. The worm's egg was laid in the blossom and hatched in the heart of the apple.

This is also precisely the way the worm of sin begins in the human heart. Man is born a sinner by nature (Psalm 51:5), as a result of the first man, Adam's, sin (Romans 5:12). When hs commits sin, he becomes a sinner by practice, and the condition of his heart is manifest. The Bible says "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9), and that evil proceeds "out of the heart" (Matthew 15:19).

Apple growers can eliminate the worm by applying the right insecticide at the right time. The only way man can remove sin is by applying the blood of Jesus Christ to his heart by faith. "Without shedding of blood is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22). "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). The right time to trust Christ as Saviour is NOW before it is too late (2 Corinthians 6:2).

—T.D.J.