Plowing The Other Field
Illustration
by Michael P. Green

Returning from Sunday school, where the Ten Commandments had been the topic of the day, a young boy asked his father, “Daddy, what does it mean when it says, ‘Thou shalt not commit agriculture’?” There was hardly a beat between the question and the father’s reply: “Son, that just means that you’re not supposed to plow the other man’s field,” an answer satisfactory to both of them.

Baker Books, 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green