Mom just baked some chocolate chip cookies, your favorite. It’s almost supper time and you know you’re not allowed to have any but mom just left the kitchen and they look so good, still warm and gooey. What do you do? You can eat some and risk being full for supper, or worse getting sick, both ways leading to you being found out and your parents being disappointed in you or you can choose to eat your supper rather than the cookies. Think of the world as the cookie jar, and all that it has to offer as the cookies. You eat of the world, but where do you end up? James 5: 2-3 says that all of your worldly cookies are going to disappear and turn into nothing. But that’s not the bad part- it’s the price you pay for giving into the temptation. It’s the eternity in hell that makes worldly cookies bad. What is your choice? Will you eat of the cookie jar and pay the price later or will you withstand the temptation and receive happiness in eternity with God later. We’ve all eaten cookies in the past, but our Father loves us and extends his grace to us if we repent and try to live for him as best as we can. He gives us a second chance to make the right decision.
by Tina
