Monday, July 30, 2018

Beware of That Piece of Pie. It May Not Be Good

Chocolate Meringue Pie

Disclaimer: The pie pictured above is not the pie that this article is about. I do not remember the name of that pie, and even went to my grocery site to at least see if I could get a picture. It is not listed there so this picture was as close as close as I could come.

Have you ever had a dessert that looked so tempting that you couldn't wait to take a bite? Only to find out that it wasn't good after all and you literally threw the rest of it away? Well, I am not into wasting good food. But that piece of pie that I had taken a bite out of was not good. Let me try to describe it to you before I go into my devotion for today. Please stay with me.

My husband had purchased said pie on a shopping trip a few weeks ago. It was not cheap, believe me. But it looked good on the package as many food products do to trick us into buying them and then we eat them and they taste like cardboard. 

I had sliced a piece for myself. And it looked good even out of its box. But, for one thing, it was way too sweet. I like sweet goodies but even for me, it was way over the top in that area. The topping was not the usual meringue we see on most pudding pies. I can't really even describe the taste to you. Except maybe to tell you that it was a counterfit of some kind of fluff.Then there was more of it then the pudding itself ( you know, hence the name chocolate pudding...) which amounted to maybe a third of the pudding in the pie pictured above. Maybe even less.I really don't know why they called it a chocolate cream pie.And when I took a bite, it wasn't foul tasting and I do not want to claim that. But whatever the topping was, it just was not good. That is about all I can tell you about that. I just felt cheated that we had paid so much for something that we ended up throwing in the trash. Like many other folks, we live from payday to payday. Every penny we spend counts. And the pennies we spent on that pie was way more than what we should have. Especially with what we ended up doing with it because hubby felt the same way.

So what I am wanting to say is, beware of foods that look good on the package but taste so bad you end up throwing them away.

But what does that have to do with my devotion for today? Maybe you have already guessed it. If you haven't, I am glad you asked. So let's get on with the answer.

Because like being beware of foods as I have just described, beware of falling into relationships that may not turn out to be good.

If you have been following me for any length of time, you will know I advocate for people to really follow God's will. Especially in relationships. For some reason this subject is heavily on my heart today.

Whenever we let ourselves contemplate being with a person that does not love God  the package can look sweet. However,we pay a high price for not following God's will if he or she is not the one that God has for us. At some point we find, that the price we paid was too high and by that time we may have gotten married and children may already be on the way. And we end up feeling cheated. 

And that is how any kind of sin works. Satan makes it look so good that we want to jump with both feet into it and are excited to do so. It really is not ok to be unequally yoked with an unbeliever. 2 Corinthians 6:14 warns us against this and I am here to tell you that I can understand why. When scripture tells us not to do something, it is for our own benefit to take God at his word. It can save us from a lot of heartache. Having ignored this scripture in my youth, I learned the hard way what it meant I thought once we were married that I could change him. I found out that I couldn't change him, and that only God could do that. But it took 15 years before that happened.And not before I went through a lot of pain and heartache for my disobedience of God. Because I had been warned and I did know better. It is so important for me to keep pounding away at it. Because if I can convince one person to wait for the person that God has for them and not just anyone that comes along, it is well worth the time I spend in publishing these posts. 

 God did hear my prayers and he did heal our marriage. However, that is how it turned out for me. It may not turn out that way for someone else. 

That sin someone has to have a piece of may cause a woman and/or child abuse. At the very least it can cause an unhappy marriage and maybe adultery. It happens everyday. Just because people get in a rush to do something that is against God's will. Relationships, tossed out just like trash. 

If you are a Christian, I especially hope you are not in a relationship that God does not have for you. If you are not a Christian, I pray that you will accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. That is the very first step towards real peace in this world. God bless you.



Thanks for visiting today Friends. May God bless you and those around you! Please come back tomorrow!




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