Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Helaman 5:12 and The Three Little Pigs

A few weeks ago I was sitting in a lesson with a investigator and I had a thought come to me, Helaman 5:12 (and for those that don't know its context you can go to the link) has some similarities with a classic story that I just love and its known as The Three Little Pigs.

Now I am fairly positive that most people know the Story of The Three Little Pigs, But for those that don't it goes something like this.
A mother pig has three children, they grow up and go off on their own to live their lives. The first thing that they need to do is build themselves some houses. The younger pigs (the first and second little pigs) are not that bright, they buy some straw and sticks to build their houses because its easy and it can be done quickly. Their older brother (the third little pig) is smart buys bricks from a bricklayer to build his house. The two younger brothers make fun of their older brother for building his house out of bricks. It takes a long time, its hard work and its not very fun, but it is a sure foundation.

Some Time goes by and all the houses are finished, at about this time the Big Bad Wolf  enters the scene, he goes to the first house, the house of straw. Each exchange between wolf and pig goes kind of like this:
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."
"No, no, by the hair on my chiny chin chin."
"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."
This results in the first little pig running for safety of the next house when his house is blown in, they two brothers think its safe until there is a knock on the door, the Big Bad Wolf is at the door. The second house is blown in and the two brothers make a mad dash for their brothers home. The three brothers are finally reunited and there is a knock on the door. The Big Bad Wolf makes the demand one last time to let him in or have the house blown in, he is rejected instantly. By that point he is so ticked because he wants to eat those darn pigs and so he starts huffing and puffing and nothing happens, not only has he been rejected but now he can't blow in this brick house.

By this time the Big Bad Wolf has had no success in getting a hold of any of the pigs so far, each time he has blown down a house the pigs have run off before he can get to them, only this time he has run into a problem, brick houses don't go down. He tries everything he can think of to trick the little pigs out of the house but to no avail. Finally, the wolf resolves to come down the chimney, whereupon the pigs boils a pot of water into which the wolf plunges, at which point the wolf jumps from the pot and runs out the door and out of sight never to be seen again.

The moral of the story is that the first and second little pigs whose houses couldn't face the huffing and puffing of the Big Bad Wolf represent those that didn't build their foundation upon the rock, The Big Bad Wolf Represents the Devil. that when the Devil shall send forth everything that he can use against them that he may destroy them, he can because they arn't prepared to stand against him.

The Third Little Pig represents those who build their foundation upon the rock, that when the Devil shall send everything that he can at you, he can have no power to drag you down.

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