IS THE FRIDGE LOCKED?

One of the challenges of caring for David is keeping him from eating himself into a coma!  David has a problem where he never feels satisfied and full.  He will eat until he throws up and still want to continue eating.  So, at our home, we have two fridges.  One we keep things in of which David is not very fond - fruit, milk, cheese, eggs, etc.  The second fridge has all of David's favorites - lunch meat, granola bars, etc.  Each night when we are getting ready to go to bed we ask whoever is letting the dog out "is the fridge locked?"  We know that David doesn't need the temptation of eating what he doesn't need so we keep him from being tempted.  It just makes common sense.  There have been times we have forgotten to lock the fridge and David will put the padlock on himself.  There are other times that we have forgotten and David will put the padlock on AFTER he has eaten himself silly.   Since David is not strong enough to always fight temptation, we try to keep him from the temptation by making sure the fridge is locked.

Let's relate this to our lives.  As Christians, there are times we are strong enough to fend off the temptation and we can say no to the sin presented to us.  There are other times when we aren't strong enough to say no.  The smart thing to do is to padlock ourselves into protection - put good blocking software on your computer so you don't view anything you shouldn't, even inadvertently.  Make yourself accountable to someone who will check up on you in your Bible reading and prayer.  Have friends that encourage and motivate you to be a better Christian.  A great preacher used to say "You are what you hang around."  Today, I'm going to check and make sure that I keep my fridge locked - my Saviour deserves nothing less of me.