My daughter and her husband were visiting on the August long
weekend. When they come, so do the desserts. The decision was made to make Skor
bit Chocolate Cake Trifle. My son in-law doesn’t care for things containing
whipped cream and requested a lemon pie. I would have gladly made him one but I
get complaints when I make “real” lemon pie using actual lemons. He wants the
kind that comes from a box.
Food isn’t the only thing where I find today’s society
wanting the imitation in place of the real. There are so many things on
television where relationships are built on physical attraction. Just like the
nutrition that is lacking from boxed foods, these relationships lack depth and
real love.
Unfortunately, this trend has also made its way to the
church where people want instant gratification. Health, wealth and prosperity
have replaced truth. False teachings are everywhere.
These imitations are making it harder all the time to share
the true message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As a Christian writer, the
temptation is there to follow the trend and probably sell more books. If I just
brought in enough to get them interested, I could still end with the truth. But
my heart knows there is no joy in imitations and there is no backdoor entry
into God’s Kingdom.
“For the
time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own
lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they
shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
2 Timothy 4:3-5
