We are not the main meals of life, only side-dishes to something Greater.
Yours Truly
My name is Alex, a teenager who aspires to live a life pleasing to Christ Jesus (and to write some poetry on the way =])
Thursday, April 24, 2008
"Even the just may sin with an open chest of gold before them."
Oh gee, it's been like four or five months since my mp3 busted, that shoddy-manufactured device. Creative ZEN. I saw someone who had one and was amazed. Too amazed, unfortunately. I did further research and was drawn in. It had a couple interesting features that the iPod didn't have, including the ability to play wma music files in accordance to mp3s, an internal radio, voice recorder, and other utility freedoms. I just had to get it, and I bought it with my own money; 'twas giddy as a little boy on his first day of school when it finally came. And then it busted a month or two later. Very tragic, I was heartbroken. The symptoms started off small... for instance, I feared the worst when it froze up on me, but I managed to reset it and it returned to full working capacity - unfortunately it was only a taste of things to come. The freezings began to occur more and more frequently, resetting the darned device became a normal activity. This happened for a while until it reached the present state that it's in now: the touchpad is more or less broken, jeopardizing the ability to turn the player off or to even consciously choose songs.
I can connect so many of these ideas to sin. We as fallen human beings choose to sin because we are drawn to the added little features and freedoms that come with it in contrast to God's plan. Being drawn in, we enjoy it for a little while, until the effects of brokenness start to take shape. The consequences may start off as inperceptible to the victim, but they steadily increase in force. What became a small side-effect becomes a ruling factor of your life. This is where my Creative ZEN and my message does not fit in. There is no hope for redeeming my device; yet God in His infinite love and mercy has provided a way to become new once again, to have full functional ability if we come to him in repentance. Trust in God today and break free of the bondage of sin.
There are some things money can't buy: a quality iPod imitation and divine regeneration.
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