The Cake Is A Lie!

I have a HUGE weakness. Cookies. Not just any cookies but Double Chocolate Chip Cookies from the Cafe here at school. And you can't just eat one cookie. No. You have to eat at least two to be balanced. But even still, everyone knows that cookies can only be eaten in groups of three! Right? In the past month I have probably eaten over 100 of these delicious Delilahs. After seeing the scale though, I told myself I would cut back. No more cookies.

Then today the cafe started making Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches! And you can't just eat one of them! So, of course I ate three of them, which equates to six (6) regular cookies plus icing! If these cookies were sin, I would be busting hell wide open right now.

There is a point to this. These cookies have a lot to tell us about who we are. You see, if they were sin I don't know if I could keep myself from eating them. Knowing that eating the cookies is wrong would not be enough to stop me from eating them. They are just that good in my mind. So what's the deal here? The point is, knowing something is wrong is not always enough to keep us from doing it. Why? Because we are messed up on the inside. We are bad. Just like yesterday's post that said there is no good in us, that is shown in our lives. Like me not being able to resist the cookies, man by himself cannot resist sin. It's just how we function.

But that's not all. In much the same way that my weight on the scale tonight is going to change my attitude toward cookies, Jesus changes our attitude toward sin. When He works in our lives, we are changed from the inside out. No longer do we have to be controlled by our lack of control; instead, we can be changed to hate what we once loved and love what we once ignored.

Kind of the reason why I'm going to be running several miles tonight. And you can bet I'll feel every one of those delicious Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches. Not so good anymore, are they?

For His renown.