Forbidden Fruit

Our house that we moved to has been a true blessing...as we were unpacking last month, we notice that one cupboard in the kitchen had a TERRIBLE odor in it so we tried to figure out what it was...Let me try to describe it for you.....when i was in 3rd grade, our class had a pet hamster that crawled out of his cage one night and fell through the heater and burnt up real good and crispy...the next day as we got off the bus and opened the school doors and the smell of toasty rodent hit us like a mac truck and took a week to get rid of....are you smelling it yet???...well that is what we think is going on in our cupboard......anyway.....until we have the gull to investigate (thankfully we can't smell it when the door is closed)  we've left it empty and keep it shut ALL THE TIME.....

I was cooking in the kitchen the other day and Rylan came in and opened it up......with a bit of panic in my voice, I said "Rylan!! No!!...don't ever open that cupboard again"....DING....curiousity peaked...the questions began..."why mom, what's in there, why can't i look".... I began to explain to Him (using all the yucky faces i could) that it was gross, nasty, smelly and there would be no benefit to opening it and the rule is that it should be never EVER opened!! Pretty compelling argument i thought...but wouln't ya know that He stood by that cupboard the whole rest of the time I was cooking just looking, wondering, and asking about it.... still wanting to open it and look in even after knowing how unpleasant it was...Man it took me right back to the beginning when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil AFTER knowing the rule and being warned of the consequences!!.......

See, our tendency is to want to put the blame ALL on Adam and Eve (it DOES say in the Word that through one man ALL have sinned) but that's just it.....we were all born with that SAME sin nature, leaving all of us responsible in a way.....but thanks be to God for He demonstrated His own love for us in this: while we were STILL sinners, christ died for us!!!!-Romans 5:8...even more... though our sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow- Isaiah 1:18

THANK YOU JESUS!!!