SAVE THE GOOSE

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17).

When Adam partook of the forbidden fruit he immediately contacted a horrendous case of food poisoning. This death has been passed on from generation to generation causing untold misery for the human race. All the murders, rapes, robberies, and fornication’s that will make today’s headlines have their root in the fruit that Adam ate.

One of the prevailing symptoms of this disease is the maddening and mystifying pursuit of that which is temporal, all the while forsaking that which is eternal. The moment Adam bit into the “apple” it became “sand in his hand.” He chose that which he could never hang onto in contempt of that which he could never lose. For all we know, he made an apple pie to go with the fried goose he was having for supper.

There would be no more golden eggs.

The development of this sin is that everything you see today is from the ground and is sure to return there someday: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18). Its not that these things are necessarily sin, but our attitude towards them is the culprit.

Are the things that make up most of our thinking really going to matter in a million years?

Save the goose!