At first I thought I was on Candid Camera but alas I wasn’t. I should have been. It was a warm day and a small frappe from McDonalds sounded perfect. As the teenage girl passed it out the drive-by window I failed to notice all the caramel sauce wasn’t inside the plastic container. There I sat with one hand smeared with sauce. In a fraction of a moment I had it on my steering wheel, on my shirt, on the gear shift (I don’t know how I did that.) and on my face. I definitely got a whole lot more than I paid for. I was a mess. I was like Eve. She got so much more than she thought she was going to get. It was true that she gained knowledge. The serpent did not lie about that. She gained knowledge about pain, heartbreak and death. What a mess ensued.
Satan is always very liberal with his giving. He tempts us with something. We get it and a mess we hadn’t counted on comes with it. Satan is happy to give us something that would normally be good if the consequences in that particular context are hellish. He knows God has a plan for each of us and he is devoted to ruining God’s dream for us. Time and again God has to abandon Plan A and go to Plan B and then to Plan C. Each change diminishes God’s dream. But the good news is God never gives up. He has Plan Triple Z ready just in case we keep making bad choices. The good news is Plan Triple Z still includes eternal life with lots of time to grow. Thank you Jesus.
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 26, 2014
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