My wife loves vanilla ice cream. Her favorite sundae, straight from New York, is vanilla with pineapple chunks and tons of whipped cream. My youngest daughter and I love chocolate, as in chocolate brownie with chocolate ice cream with hot fudge, with Oreos, M&Ms, and anything else chocolatey that can be added.
What a treat when we can get some yummy ice cream and enjoy it down to scraping the hot fudge at the bottom of the bowl (or of a cup, if you skimp)! YUMMY!
We can compare these two flavors with light and darkness. Light always wins out. I see pictures of people living in darkness. They don a mask attempting to cover their faces as they rob stores, steal packages, kill others, etc. It’s very obvious they don’t believe God exists. They have got to know that masks don’t throw off God for a nanosecond -one billionth of a second (10 to the negative 9th power)). See, regardless of how pitch black a room may be, and how dark the clothing one’s wearing is, God knows 1000% it’s YOU!
For starters, God knows all our words, thoughts, and actions before we do! Secondly, He sees everything everywhere at once, all the time!!! Thirdly, “even the darkness is not dark to You. And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You” (Psalms 139:12 NASB).
So, we’re uncovered before His presence. Chocolate is just like Vanilla in His sight. Our actions don’t surprise Him. Even when we feel we’ve outdone ourselves, He’s known it for eternity. We will NEVER have an upper hand over God.
Therefore, go ahead and enjoy that treat with a clear conscience. In the end goodness outdoes evil. Light outdoes darkness; or vanilla outdoes chocolate. So, go ahead and sprinkle it with hot fudge and chocolate sprinkles! Hmm! I think I’ll join you!
God Bless!
Sam