Lucky Charms Christianity

A good way to describe the degenerate falling away of Christianity is to look at a box of Lucky Charms.

First a little background.  One good thing about having young boys in the house is you can justify buying the kids cereals.  I still think Cheerios is the greatest breakfast item since sliced bread became french toast, but there are some good kids cereals out there.  My all time favorite was Pac Man though. It had the corn puffs like KIX and the marshmallows like Lucky Charms.  A very original combination that has never been duplicated.  What is confusing about Lucky Charms is it basically is the oat cereal of cheerios with marshmallows, but even though I love Cheerios, I could never stand for a marshmallowless bowl of Lucky Charms.  When I understand why, I may have another post on my hand.  Not Post like the cereal either.

Anyway, there is a big difference between the first bowl of Lucky Charms and the middle bowl and the last bowl.

First bowl has almost a 50 50 proportion of the magically delicious marshmallows and the blah boring toasted oat cereal that is mixed with in.  I don't even know the shapes of the oat cereal but I can picture the marshmallows.  When you eat a middle bowl, there is about a 20 80 proportion of marshmallow to cereal.  It is not the same.  And when you get to the end, there are maybe 2 or 3 marshmallows in your bowl and a bunch of crumbs and powder and it is fairly stale.

Toward the end there is not much left that is very appetizing and there is a whole bunch of dust mixed in.  Little sweetness, little color, little to look forward to, and very little taste or flavor to satisfy the appetite or sway someone over another cereal.   In fact the only thing to look forward to with the final bowl is just the new box in the cupboard.

The Bible says things will get worse and worse in every way toward the end.  The bible says there will be a great falling away.  Jesus return is our blessed hope and what we have to look forward to.

Until then, we need to get right and turn to him more.  WE need to resist the devil and expect it to get worse.  And now is when we can get influence.  Tell people the world is going to get worse and worse and more violent and more unpredictable and worse weather because the Bible says it will get worse.  But tell them about the new box.  The NEW BIRTH that is available when you get saved.  And when you get saved, you get spared. 

Jesus is going to dump that final bowl of the marshmallowless, tasteless, and crummy state of this false form of Christianity just like everything else upon his return.

Don't be in that bowl.  Be in Christ instead.