I like candy bars, generally speaking. Unless it has coconut, fruit, or pretzels, I am willing to eat it. There may be some that I don’t like aside from the excluded list, but I like most candy bars. There are a few that I really like and have to limit my exposure to them because of how much I like them.

One of my favorites involves chocolate surrounding a crispy peanut butter center. I can polish off one of these and immediately want another. That one is a candy bar that I have to have very infrequently. I have the type of physique that is made by junk food, and there is no sense in making it worse.

Earlier today,I was talking with someone about candy bars as I finished eating a miniature one. We talked about how they go down so smoothly, but the desire for another one is almost instantaneous. I realized that sin is the same way. Not just in the gluttony way, either.

You can look through Proverbs and see a lot along these lines. How something looks good, but is really bad. And how the one time isn’t enough, you begin to crave more. Just on the surface, sin looks fun. Doing something that you know is wrong, and thinking you can get away with it. Somewhere, you know that God will still know you did, and that you know better than to do it. That does not always lessen the allure.

If you yield and commit the sin, it can create a desire to do it again, or to move on to more sins. Just like I have to stay away from certain candy bars, we need to stay away from sin. Living in an imperfect world as imperfect people, that won’t be easy, or even possible. When we do fall, we don’t need to give up and chase after more sins.

We should turn to God, before we sin would be much better, but even after sin, we should turn back to Him.