The Last Straw
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The Last Straw

The relentless sun scorches the sand as the weary camel plods on through the endless desert. A great famine ravages the land. The desert is strewn with the carcasses of wild camels. The camel cannot take another step and collapses face first into the sand. It thinks to itself "why have I had to carry this burden of straw and how can I get it off of my back?" The pangs of hunger and thirst burn more now than the heat of the sun. The camel thinks "is this the last straw?" Just as all hope for life has faded, the camel's owner finds it and slowly pours His own water slowly into the camels' parched mouth. Soon He feeds it with straw taken from the camel's own back. The camel now realizes that it has had no good reason for running from it's Master.

Soon the camel regains it's strength and struggles to stand on wobbly legs. The Masters' expectant wife will now ride next to the burden of straw on the camel's back. That night beneath the starry sky, they approach a small village. They find a place to bed down just outside of town. It isn't long untill the woman begins to have her Child. The Master takes the entire load of straw from the camel's back and makes a bed for His wife and carefully lines a feed trough with the fresh straw for His new-born Child.

The camel is now very glad that the burden has been removed from it's back. The camel is thankful that it's Master has found it and that now the straw that it carried will be a bed for the Master's Son. This is no ordinary Child but The Son of God, the Savior of the world, who would live, and love, and die, and live again. For all who will believe, this Son will carry..."the last straw."

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