A Cookie Isn’t a Cookie Unless You Can Sneak It (standard:humor, 901 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Apr 21 2019	Views/Reads: 1593/1102	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The worst temptation is the one you think is not a temptation and one you can handle on your own. If it were not for temptations, I would not know how gracious God is in his forgiving power.

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Then I heard it. “You did not eat these cookies on top of the
refrigerator did you?” 

By the tone of her voice, I knew I was in trouble. It is not that I have
not been in trouble before. This one caught me completely off guard. 

“Those cookies were for our fellowship this coming Sunday. What happened
to them?” 

Oh boy. 

“I couldn't resist those cookies and so I had just one.” 

“If you had just one, where did the rest go?” 

At this point, to come up with an explanation that would satisfy her
inquiry was well beyond my pay grade. 

I did not recall eating all those delicious cookies. Each cookie tasted
better than the one before. I tried to explain, “Those were the best 
cookies in the whole wide world. The best cookies you have ever baked.” 


She just gave me one of “those stares.” 

After apologizing for my misdeed, I thought of a Scripture verse along
this line. 

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye 
are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that 
ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). 

The worst temptation is the one you think is not a temptation and one
you can handle on your own. If it were not for temptations, I would not 
know how gracious God is in his forgiving power.


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