How about some Door County Cherry Crème Coffee to start the day with a fresh corn muffin? To me it sounds like a great way to launch the morning.
Sin has a way of looking good to us and we often fall for it's aura and attraction. What starts as euphoria ends up in hard cold reality when the consequences are revealed.
Genesis 3:1-13 New International Version (NIV)
The Fall
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Eve was enticed to eat the fruit that was forbidden. What she saw at the moment was pleasing to the eye. Adam fell because he wanted some too. It wasn't very long before they both were scrambling for clothes and hiding from God. Reality set in.
A good way to not be on Reality TV in heaven is to remember this. You really do know right from wrong. With the wrong choice there is always a consequence or forty. Choose the right thing to do 100% of the time and you avoid the reality of sin.
Look how quick Adam turned on Eve and played the blame game. Who's job was it to continue to instruct Eve? Eve was honest when she said she was deceived, but she did not ask to be forgiven. She just wanted to blame Satan.
The truth about sin is this. The flash and flare will soon turn into a spiritual rash and a stare. Once what you were excited to do, now turns your stomach. But you could have chosen differently. Right and wrong. You have a fifty fifty chance of getting it right. Not really. Wrong is always wrong. Right is always right. Be correct 100% of the time. Choose right over wrong.
God bless,
Marty
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