Foooood :)

We really love food.  Of course I guess most people do :)  But we love making food, trying new recipes (if it sounds/looks good)  and of course, eating it!  Last week we made the most delicious sweet potato fries!  The problem with things like this is .... haha...the kids find out they like it!  That shouldn't be a problem I know, but when  we've been to a restaurant with my mom, and she's ordered sweet potato fries and offered them, the kids have always declined thinking it wouldn't taste very good (which of course they were wrong!)  But sometimes, in my selfish nature I'm ok with them not trying so that I can have more!  But, when we made them at home, I said everyone should try some, as we always try to do...and they found out they are DELICIOUS!  Click here to see the website we looked at when first making them.  We've since made them a few times and they never let me down...mmmm so good!  I think we'll make some more again today.  Thinking about the kids not wanting to try things I remember a story Tim always tells about when the kids were younger and he would serve bacon, they would turn their nose up at it and refuse to eat it.  They thought it didn't look too appealing and so they wouldn't try it.  Now it doesn't last on the plate very long and there isn't extra for Daddy anymore :)

Hebrews 6:4-6 is a pretty hard passage to swallow - nice word play ha- but it relates so much to this illustration of a child's unwillingness to try new things, and then the transformation that happens once they have tasted the goodness.

 ⁴ It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age ⁶ and who have fallen^[c] away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. 

Once you've had the bacon, or the sweet potato fries, you can't deny how good they are, nor will you be likely to refuse them when they are offered to you.  As with Christ, when we have heard/read/seen his goodness we can't deny who He is.  And when we think of it as with kids and foods....it makes it seem really silly that with Christ sometimes we tend to deny or doubt Him, when we have tasted and seen that He is good.  There are eternal consequences, let's be careful in the choices we make, and remember that God is good.