Soda and life

For about a year now, I have stopped drinking soda. I don't even remember exactly when I stopped drinking it. I thought I would miss it, but after a while I became used to drinking water and I haven't regretted it since. Its better for my health and plus water is just so much more refreshing and thirst-quenching to me. I mean we are 75% water, so that makes sense I suppose. I didn't like that soda was always so dehydrating, and even though it quenched my thirst for a while, it was starving my body of what I really needed. Also, if you think about the ingredients in soda, its basically a bunch of acids, carbonation and a bunch of sugars. There are other trace things, but thats basically what it is. The phosphoric acid can rot your bones and start taking out the calcium that makes them so strong. Since it's acid, it can even damage your esophagus if you drink it enough. It's terrible for your teeth as well. The sugars turn to fat in some bodies. So why do we drink it? Because it tastes good! The carbonation is fun to belch or perhaps you just like the fizzy feeling. It gives you more satisfaction at the time than a boring glass of water. Yet it tears up your body. Am I saying you should stop drinking soda? That is your choice and I will not interfere with that but that is not the main point I am trying to make here. I'm sure someone may have come up with an analogy like this before, but I see soda as a really good analogy for sin. Sin is fun, but it only satisfies temporarily. It leads to cravings for more when one sin is no longer enough to satisfy. Yet all it leads to is hurting, either yourself or someone else, and it eats us like acid from the inside out. It dehydrates us from the true Living Water until we get so dehydrated that we no longer believe anything can satisfy us but the sin. We become desensitized to its obvious effects and try to cover them up with more sin. Just like the first people on the earth, Adam and Eve. We blame everyone else but ourselves for our screw-ups because we don't like to admit that we messed up. We have too much pride and arrogance that we know what we're doing. We also don't expect any consequences and we complain when they do come. We all do this, myself included. I feel that it is always important to emphasize that when I write these notes, I am not writing them out of a holier-than-thou attitude, because I struggle exactly with the same things all the time. I simply write them because the Holy Spirit has laid them on my heart and I don't think he wants me to keep these thoughts to myself. I find that I can be so much more coherent with my thoughts when I type or write, rather than when I try to speak to someone, so alas here I am:) Perhaps I should consider being an author.......what do you think? Do I actually make sense or are these merely words on a page? You can read my other notes if you like. I write a lot at once because I never have time to write anything haha. Life gets busy. Well it's time to study anthropology before I go to bed because I have a test Tuesday. See yall later! God bless:)