LEARNED MY LESSON

I had breakfast this morning with a couple of my friends.  It was at a restaurant that I don't frequent often.  However, I knew exactly what I was going to get.  The last time I ate there, I found a Mediterranean Breakfast Wrap--delicious!  It was like a breakfast gyro with all kinds of other good ingredients.  One of those ingredients was feta cheese.  I love feta cheese.


Well, last time I ate there, I was not all that hungry so I decided to save half of the wrap for a little later.  And please hear me that I did not leave this thing sitting out for hours on end (I'm not in college anymore).  I don't remember how long now, but I don't think it was much over an hour, but...it was sitting in a warm car.


It was still good...in flavor.  But that is when I learned that feta cheese is more of a "fragile" cheese.  You cannot leave it sitting out in a warm car.  Let's just say that I did not feel all that well later that day--for most of the day--in fact, I felt like I was dying.


So...this time, I ate the whole thing.  I learned my lesson.


And that got me thinking...why don't we learn our lesson when it comes to sinning?  Why do we continue to do the same sin over and over again?  I would say most of us feel conviction from the Holy Spirit and we feel bad about our sin.  But then come Thursday, we are right back there doing it again (make that Thursday, Friday, Saturday...or so it seems).


We need to learn our lesson; we need to feel like we are dying.  God wants us to live with Him, but there needs to be change within us.  Salvation is more than just saying a prayer--it's about life-change and looking like Jesus.  We can say all we want about what we believe, but if there is no life-change we don't really believe.  A change in belief HAS to be followed by a change in behavior...otherwise you don't really believe it.


So, I guess my prayer for tomorrow is this: when I sin Lord, make me feel like I am dying.  We need to learn our lesson.