Well, Saturday I was looking online at fancy schmancy cupcakes to order once the fast is over. Amazing, scrumptious, and decadent cupcakes!
Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, oh my!
Saturday night I had a crazy dream about dessert. Serves me right for day dreamin' about cupcakes right before bed.
I was at some sort of church ladies function. I walked into the dining room and the table was covered with decadent desserts of all types. The hostess urged me to dig in and I obliged. It started with just a bite, and before I knew it I was shoving cupcakes and cookies and chocolate into my mouth as fast as I could chew.
Oh, it was good. Sinfully good.
In a split second, I remembered that I was fasting dessert.
Busted.
I had a choice to make. There I was, mouth full of sweets like a chipmunk and a treat in each hand. What was I going to do? I hesitated. I chewed as I thought, ‘If I blew it this bad I may as well keep going.’
Wow.
I kept going.
Ouch. I’m relieved that it was just a dream.
But isn’t that just like us as humans? We crave the wrong things. There is nothing wrong with eating a cupcake, but when I choose the cupcake over God I cross the line into sin. I joked last Friday about feeling like I was about to die of sugar deprivation. Sunday night I found myself asking, do I crave God that much? So much I would die without him? I should be.
It's time to restart checking my cravings. This morning. No more putting it off. When I feel that intense craving for food, I will pray that God helps me to crave HIM instead.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world.
~ 1 John 2:15-16
But isn’t that just like us as humans? We crave the wrong things. There is nothing wrong with eating a cupcake, but when I choose the cupcake over God I cross the line into sin. I joked last Friday about feeling like I was about to die of sugar deprivation. Sunday night I found myself asking, do I crave God that much? So much I would die without him? I should be.
It's time to restart checking my cravings. This morning. No more putting it off. When I feel that intense craving for food, I will pray that God helps me to crave HIM instead.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world.
~ 1 John 2:15-16
Ouch. That was convicting. I so desperately need to get my cravings under control! No more putting it off. It starts today.
ReplyDeleteI love the mental image of you with your cheeks stuffed with cupcakes. :P Although, you do realize pie is better than cake. Yes, even cupcakes. ;)
Cake is ALWAYS better than pie.
ReplyDeleteUnless it is Key Lime Pie. Then maybe. :P