A Simple Bowl of Spaghetti

The bowl of spaghetti I used to teach about – has new meaning. Let’s say spaghetti is your favorite dish and you can’t live without having it. In fact, you are addicted to eating spaghetti.

With that in mind, let’s now equate spaghetti to something in your life that’s not good for you. Maybe it’s a sin, a bad habit or an addiction, whatever separates you from God. With your total focus on spaghetti and your unwillingness to put spaghetti away – whatever spaghetti may be – you have also cancelled out the possibility of God replacing the spaghetti with something much better. The problem with this is you won’t taste the better dish, the better life, the better habit, that better relationship until you put spaghetti out of the way. Whatever the spaghetti may be…