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Don't Play with It!

My granddaughter likes to walk pass the smooth stove top and put her hand on it. I vigorously object and tell her not to do so. I know the purpose of the stove. It is to heat and to cook food. I am trying to protect her from the day she goes around the corner absentmindedly and slides her hand on the cook top when it's on. Then she may be badly burned.

Isn’t this like sin and temptation? We go around that temptation many times touching it but not feeling any consequences. It becomes a habit. We do it so many times we lose the fear and are unaware that we are setting ourselves up to be burned. One day we do what we’ve always done and the full force of the purpose of sin snatches us away.

Just like my granddaughter. She’s not starting off with the intention of being burned. She just likes the smooth feel of the glassy surface of the cook top. Remember the purpose of the temptation is to take you away from God. God’s commandments are not hidden from us. When you start toying, feeling and touching not doing them, like my granddaughter, you are setting yourself up for the big burn.
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