Recently I was asked to lead a time of devotion for a group of teenage girls. They were from Chicago, visiting our church in New Orleans, conducting our VBS and doing some Katrina relief work. Their Youth Pastor planned a night in the French Quarter and then afterwards a time of devotion for the kids. My husband was assigned the guys and I had the wonderful pleasure of leading those very impressionable young ladies!
So after a wonderful time of coffee and beignets I lead them over to the steps of the Mississippi. It was a beautiful night! The following is what I shared with them - as you read this I hope you gain a new outlook at what grace might be like (in regular everyday life terms)!
I TOTALLY love chocolate! I love how it tastes, I love how it melts in my mouth, I love it melted, frozen, warm, cold - just about anything about chocolate - I love it! Every time my husband & I go to a restaurant and it comes time for desert, I tell myself, "I'm going to try something new!" And then I cave and go for the chocolate. And shouldn't chocolate in of itself be good enough? Sure. But why do I love Double Fudge chocolate even more? I could eat double fudge chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream on the side - and as my Dad used to say, "and eat it all with a chocolate spoon!"
Now that you've got this image of this heavenly bliss in your head and perhaps on your taste buds, I want to share a verse with you. I think I have found the spiritual equivalent to double fudge chocolate in scripture (minus the calories of course)!
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