a healthy dose of radiation
I was warming up my lunch and the top of my Tupperware popped off while in the microwave. It reminded me of the other day when I was making cookies with my students - someone put the butter in the microwave and the same thing happened; the top popped off. Many of the other students said "just take the top off" so naturally that I thought about how normal it is to microwave food with no covering.
Everybody does it. Well, except for my mom. She always used to tell me and my brother to put a paper towel over our plates when we microwaved food. The radiation isn't good for you. I believed it was true and I knew it probably was dangerous, but it didn't seem or look dangerous at the time. And after many times of doing it, there were no immediate negative affects that I knew of. I didn't see any consequences where I could say "oh yeah! this happened because of that time I didn't cover the plate in the microwave". So I'm safe! Right?
How many times have we known that something had risks, but we ignored it and concluded with our finite expertise that we can dismiss the risks; nothing bad will happen?
It's the same way with living life for Christ. We strive to do the right things but we still live risky. There may be something that we do so often (it may be a sin or maybe just something non-beneficial) but we become so immune to it, that we don't realize how harmful the small amounts of it could affect us over time.
Just because it's dormant, doesn't mean it's cured. Beware the silent killers.
Now I'm no microwave expert, but it may be possible that these small amounts of radiation that we expose ourselves to so regularly without even thinking, could over time affect us individually or maybe even the human race genetic makeup in general (just thinking).
What is it that you're ignoring that if you're not careful, may grow into some big problem over time?
Everybody does it. Well, except for my mom. She always used to tell me and my brother to put a paper towel over our plates when we microwaved food. The radiation isn't good for you. I believed it was true and I knew it probably was dangerous, but it didn't seem or look dangerous at the time. And after many times of doing it, there were no immediate negative affects that I knew of. I didn't see any consequences where I could say "oh yeah! this happened because of that time I didn't cover the plate in the microwave". So I'm safe! Right?
How many times have we known that something had risks, but we ignored it and concluded with our finite expertise that we can dismiss the risks; nothing bad will happen?
It's the same way with living life for Christ. We strive to do the right things but we still live risky. There may be something that we do so often (it may be a sin or maybe just something non-beneficial) but we become so immune to it, that we don't realize how harmful the small amounts of it could affect us over time.
Just because it's dormant, doesn't mean it's cured. Beware the silent killers.
Now I'm no microwave expert, but it may be possible that these small amounts of radiation that we expose ourselves to so regularly without even thinking, could over time affect us individually or maybe even the human race genetic makeup in general (just thinking).
What is it that you're ignoring that if you're not careful, may grow into some big problem over time?
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