I love most cookies but really love those chocolate chip cookies. I have been trying to eat more healthy but when there are chocolate chip cookies around I just can't seem to keep my hand out of the cookie jar. It seems like I resolve that I will stay away from those cookies but then I see them. Without my permission my hand just seems to end up with a cookie in it. Then there is the smell of those luscious cookies wafting from my hand to my nose. Before I know it that cookie is gone and more cookies in my hand. After several cookies I think oh my how did that happen. I have even tried slapping my hand only to find the other hand with a cookie in it. Sometimes between my hands not being able to stay out of the cookie jar and the smell I feel like I might be fighting a losing battle! Sometimes I just think oh well, one or two or twelve cookies won't matter. But it does matter and it shows. It shows on the scales, it shows with tighter clothes and it also shows with health.
Sin is just like my hand that can't seem to stay out of the cookie jar. Sin entices with the thought, oh just once won't matter, it entices with the smell and it entices with the thought that no one will know. Sin keeps your hand in the cookie jar and it does matter. It shows up in the way you act, it shows up in your attitude and it can also affect your health.
There is a way to keep my hand out of the cookie jar of sin. There is a Savior and He can keep my hand out of the cookie jar of sin! All I have to do is ask! I don't have to fight a losing battle!
What about you? Do you know my Savior? He can help keep your hand out of the cookie jar!
John 3:16New International Version (NIV)
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
