A pastor was teaching the Ten Commandments to a group of children.
When he came to “Thou shalt not steal,” he leaned forward and said, “Now, children, what would the cookie jar say to you if it could talk?”
A little girl lifted her hand and said, “It would say, ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not!’”
She felt drawn to that cookie jar—like something outside herself was calling her name.
She knew she shouldn’t, but she wanted to. She was already wrestling with freedom and desire.
Haven’t we all been there?
The cookie jar may look different for each of us, but we all know what it feels like to be pulled by something that seems stronger than our will.