So I came up with an analogy the other day, I am actually pretty impressed with it :)
Picture your all time favorite candy bar (for me it is a Milky Way, King Size of course) sitting in front of you, just within arm's reach. You haven't eaten all day and have been craving chocolate like none other. Naturally, you grab the candy bar and devour it, letting it's creamy texture melt away in your mouth. Delicious. In the back of your mind you know that eating the candy bar probably wasn't the healthiest decision, but the taste that is overwhelming your senses quickly dismisses any negative thoughts of what consequences might await you. You polish off every last mouthwatering bite and then soon forget about your little treat as you go about the rest of the day.
But, surprise! It shows up about a week later-in the form of a 4th love-handle! Regrets flood your mind as the all of strenuous hours you put into working out are ruined by this fateful candy bar.
So the candy bar represents sin..tempting, conniving, revolting sin. Sin that appears so appetizing and harmless, but never fails to eventually come back and bite you in the butt.
Why do the desires of my flesh seem so overpowering, so irresistible? Sometimes I feel that there is no point in even trying to deny them, because I am bound to fall right back into that pit of failure in no time. There are times when I don't even have the desire to say no, the delectable taste of that candy bar is just overwhelming. So I end up here, stuck in this rut where I struggle with even having the desire to escape..
2 comments:
so i love your analogy. so true and so applicable to us fatties ;)
I was just talking to Nate last night about sin, and our flesh's desire to constantly be living in sin. We talked a lot about how through getting closer to God it gets easier to stay away from sin because we recognize it for what it is... something that separates us from God..and it becomes less something we have to 'give up' and more just something we dont want anymore. BUT sometimes we dont get that lucky and we really do have to make a conscience effort to stay away from certain sin in our lives even if we have a strong desire for it, which is so much harder to do because sometimes we get blinded to seeing sin for what it truly is and we only see the "good" we can get out of it ( the amazing taste of a milky way ) and not the consequences of it ( the huge lovehandles )
So i guess we have to strive to get to a point where we look at a Milky Way and instead of seeing it as an answer to our immediate desires we see it as just another avenue to take us away from our True Desire ( a hot bod ) hah you know how people take analogies and go to far with them? might have just done that but it made complete sense to me.
THANKYOU SO MUCH for talking to me tonight you have no idea how just talking to you automatically makes any worries that i am having go away. You really know exactly what to say all the time-- wow that was a pretty good compliment, hah but it is true.
love you dear
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