I am in such trouble. My wife just made cookies for a school event. She used a new mix and didn’t want to take bad tasting cookies so I tested one. It was wonderful. No, it was beyond wonderful. It was the most perfect cookie I have ever eaten. I am in trouble because it is early evening and I have hours left before going to bed. Here I sit at my computer knowing in the next room there is a box full of those amazing cookies and I cannot have any more. I am salivating just thinking about it. I need to wipe off my keyboard. What am I to do? I would have been so better off had I not had one.
I feel like Eve in the Garden with the forbidden tree. Of course what happened to her was worse. As her curiosity brought her close to the tree there was this amazing talking creature that enticed her with promises of enhanced intelligence. If he a dumb creature could talk as a result of eating from the tree what would it do for her who already could talk? It would make her like God. What is so sad about this is God really did want her to be like Him, just not this way. God has spent the following thousands of years doing His best to transform us into His likeness. See IIPeter 1. He even paid the ultimate price on the cross to make that happen. Via His indwelling Spirit we can grow more and more like Him each day. It is God’s goal for each of us.
In the meantime I know what I will do. I will get a drink and wash the flavor out of my mouth. That will help. Ah, but there is still the smell permeating the entire house. I need to take the dog for a walk.
Written by Roger Bothwell on February 11, 2009
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