“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”
Hebrews 3:12-13
As described by Professor Forbes (University of Colorado, Boulder), the fishing frog is a most deceitful creature. This artful dodger lives to deceive and to destroy. On the top of its head, it has two long moveable, bony filaments, one of which has a silvery luster: this is waved back and forth to tempt the little fish which is attracted by it, expecting something to eat, while the monster, with its horrible mouth, lies half-buried in the sand or mud beneath. Beneath every sin lies the hungry jaws of death. Sin often has the appearance of a silvery delight, and there may be a momentary pleasure in it, but “sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.” (James 1:15)
Remember, not everything “shiny” is good.