from your drink, but then swallowing a camel. It’s a ridiculous picture: concerned about minuscule matters, unconcerned about mammoth matters! This too is the use of a rhetorical device. You have to understand what the Bible is talking about. But you also need to learn how to use those devices to impress truth upon counselees to help them think and remember. Learn to invent and use crisp, startling aphorisms the way Jesus did. “Don’t cast your pearls before swine,” “Wherever your treasure is, there