"Is this a bacon bit?"

I got to thinking the other day, why is it that we are so quick to try things that we so obvioulsy should not try? Jacson has developed this nasty habbit of wiping his hands on the underneath side of the table whenever he is eating, and no matter how many times we get onto him for this, or no matter how many times we clean his little wiping area he always manages to sneak little bits of food under there. Tuesday evening, after we had finished eating supper, Alaina came walking into the living room with somthing stuck to her finger and she asked, "Is this a bacon bit?" Before I could really give her a good enough answer she decided to find her own answer by putting whatever it was into her mouth. Immediatley when this, whatever it was hit her tongue, it was clear by her facial expression that what she was tasting was definitly not a bacon bit. Of course, I couldn't help but laugh at her expression but then I laughed even harder when she told Albertein what happened. She told Albertein, "I thought that was a bacon bit, I got it from under there (pointing to the underneath side of the table), I put it in my mouth, but it was not a bacon bit!" Now of coarse we would look at that and say, who would put somthing in their mouth that they found on the underneath side of the table, hopin that it was a bacon bit? But then again, I am amazed at how often we do things that are blatantly not a good idea!

As I was thinking about this, I couldn't help but think about the story of Samson in the book of Judges. Now Sampson is one of my favorite storys from the Bible because he was like a real life super hero; I mean this guy was supernaturally gifted with strength beyond any other human being that I am aware of. He killed a lion with his bare hands, he killed hundreds of Philistines with the jaw bone of a donkey, he ripped the gates off of one of their cities and dropped them off at the top of a near by hill; this guy was amazing. He was given this amazing strength to set his people free, and yet he blatantly did everything he was not supposed to do.

You and I may not have the strength of Sampson, but God has set each of us up in such a way as to be used by him in an incredible way, and yet how often do we give up that glorious calling on our lives for nonsense? In a very real way, God has given us life, freedom, joy, and everything else, and yet we want to see what's under the table! It just doesn't make sense.