Have you heard the idiom, “That’s how the cookie crumbles”? It is a slang term, origin unknown from the 1920′s in America. Used to underline a failure of an action, or disappointment in reaching an undesired result, with the additional meaning that the result was not an unexpected one.
For example:
Brad: ” Well, I asked Angelina out, and she told me to go get lost . . “
Pitt: “Hey, that’s the way the cookie crumbles!”
Christians should never say, “Oh well, that’s how the cookie crumbles” What many don’t realize is that the crumbling of the cookie is controlled by their own actions. Remember what the Psalmist said in Psalm 1, “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord…” The cookie will crumble only when you move away from your Lord toward something or someone of your own desires and will. Moving away from the Lord can be ever so subtle. First there is the walking. Walking is a casual acquaintance with something or someone. This is the first step and the most subtlest. Secondly, there is the standing. This is the next logical step toward intimacy. The relationship with the object of your once casual acquaintance has now moved toward a better level of comfort. The third and fatal step of your faith is sitting. This is the most intimate posture of your relationship with something or someone.
Think about everything habit in your life. I can guarantee that every habit in your life started of with walking. “Walking” is like just tasting alcohol. “Walking” is like just greeting a non-Christian guy or gal. “Standing” is like sipping alcohol. It’s like taking a few gulps of it. “Standing” is like stopping and chatting up the non-Christian gal or guy and even asking him or her out on a date.”Sitting” is like buying a few bottles of beer; having a craving for it and you need its company. “Sitting” is like dating the non-Christian guy or gal. You are intimate with them.
If you were to track down how you got were you are you’ll discover that you’ve walked, stood and sat with the wrong things in life, or, you may discover that you are where you are because you’ve walked, stood and sat with the right things, the God-things in life.
That’s how the cookie crumbles? Nope, it’s crumbling because you made the wrong choices.
