To Eat Or Not To Eat?(Wiggle room part 1)

  I remember my freshman year in college and how I wanted so terribly to follow God. I desired everything I pursued or engaged in to glorify God; God centered, God ordained. I vividly recall sitting on our royal blue couch in my small apartment (yes, deep royal blue; it was the 90’s) eating a bowl of cereal between classes. Nearly half way through the bowl of cereal I started to get full. Full? I had only eaten a half bowl of Frosted Flakes and Tony was right, “They were great!” 

I wanted desperately to finish the last bit of the crispy, crunchy, Frosted Flakes and get to the sugary bottom, but I was getting full. I had a dilemma; I was in a moral jam. If I finished the bowl of cereal, stuffed myself and ate too much, I would commit the sin of gluttony. On the other hand, if I poured the half of uneaten cereal down the drain, then I was wasteful which also constituted a sin.

So, was I to continue eating and risk gluttony or was I to discard the cereal down the garbage disposal and risk being wasteful. OMG! What was I to do? All I wanted was to please God, to make Him happy. Yet, here I was in a dilemma between two vices: gluttony and wastefulness. How I wish I could console that confused freshman lost in the deep velvety sea of royal blue upholstery that God had given him some wiggle room.