A few weeks ago our family started a diet. This diet didn’t allow for any sugar. Well, this doesn’t work very well with our tradition of getting Blizzards from Dairy Queen when we go to work with Daddy. On the second week of this diet my brother and I got to go with Daddy on his overnight business trip. Were we going to “fall off the wagon” by yielding to the strong temptation of getting the Blizzards that we REALLY wanted, or were we going to choose the right option, and refrain? When we got home someone would ask us what we had eaten, and whether or not we had been “good.” What would we say: that we had not given in, or that we had?
Although we didn’t yield and get the Blizzards that time, it taught me a lesson. It is the same in our spiritual lives. We are frequently tempted by various things in life, but we must remember that we will one day stand before God and give an account of the temptations that we gave in to. How inadequate our earthly excuse will be in comparison to His righteous law.
P.S. We still get them when we aren’t on a diet.
Great lesson & comparison. 🙂
Loved meeting and talking with you last week! <3