The Right Recipe

Wanting to please and surprise her parents, young Karen decided to bake a batch of cookies. She paged through moms recipe book excitedly looking for something that mom and dad would find special. Ah! Here is just the right one! Karen exclaimed as she quickly scanned the list of ingredients. Unfortunately, by time she came to one of the most necessary ingredients, two cups of apple sauce, she learned they had none. Oh dear! she thought, Now what should I do?

Karen scratched her head a moment then began searching the kitchen frantically for a convenient substitute. Her eyes fell upon the large bottle of apple cider vinegar mom had in the fridge.

Karen went back to work; mixing, baking and cooling the special treat she had prepared for her parents.

After a nice spaghetti dinner, Karen ran to the cabinet, grabbed her plate of cookies, and set them before her family with an ear-to-ear grin. Of course, they eagerly dug in as they were very pleased with their daughters thoughtfulness. In an instant, smiles turned to odd-looking grimaces. When mother spit her bite out in to her napkin, Karen knew something was terribly wrong. "I guess it didnt turn out quite as I expected," she admitted quietly as she stared at floor.

In similar manner, sin is a wrongful and bitter ingredient that may exist in our own lives. We may have the best of intentions, but when we try to mix evil with good, and corruption with righteousness, the end result is poisonous, not only to our spiritual welfare, but oftentimes to our emotional and physical bodies as well.

God calls us to purity, so we must remove the rancid effect of sin from our lives by calling on the Lord for forgiveness within the spirit of repentance. That is the right recipe for a brand new start.

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