Our sweet tooth.
We crave confections. From our first birthday, stuffing cake into our mouths, we want the stuff. Ice cream, donuts, and pie. More, more, we demand. We want sugar.
Ants love the sweet stuff, too. Mix a little sugar with a mineral called borax, and the ants can’t differentiate between the two. The sugar is so alluring that they also carry the borax into their nests and consume it.
Here’s what the ants can’t tell: Borax is deadly. It kills them. They are so wrapped up in feeding on the sugar that they also eat the poison that destroys them.
What’s our sugar, and what’s the poison mixed in?
Mark 16:16 tells us:
“Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
Matthew 25:41 is very clear:
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’ ”
Romans 6:23 leaves no room for doubt:
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Living in the moment glitters with confectionary finery. We want instant gratification. That adrenalin rush, or the touch of the forbidden; maybe the instant high of the latest drug. Or perhaps it’s money, taken no matter how we can get it. Others want power, even if people must suffer in the process.
We get our sugar, but there’s borax mixed in. The sugar rush is so strong that we can’t tell something in us is dying when we consume what the world has to offer. When fine cars, impressive homes, and bank accounts become our Christian testimony, they’ve become a poison that will weaken our spiritual man. Eat enough and we will die.
John 5:24 is our safe sugar rush:
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”
Jesus is the sweetness that we can enjoy every day.
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