Rods and Cones

Wait...i promised Fab i would post about rods and cones. So why?

Rods and Cones, those tiny structures in our eyes, responsible for our perception of colour and our vision in darkness. Cones allow for color vision, sadly, rainbows would be monochrome without them. Rods, allow for vision in the dark, without them, we'd be groping around aimlessly during Kluang-like camps. But that's not the point I was getting at.

Rods. Vision in the darkness. Something dangerous if you put it in Christian perspective. Living in sin, and still being able to look around, albeit seeing mostly shadowy silouhette of things. The scary thing is, we CAN and will get accustomed to sin. After being in sin too long, we get desensitized, hearts get numbed, hardened, it's dangerous to dwell in the darkness once our rods get to work. We get a blurred view of everything, a view without color, but we think we can still see, we think we're still alright, we think we're not in trouble. But the truth is, we're more blind than we know it. Believe me, it's much better seeing in color and in the light!

There was once a story told of some girls who put on lipstick in the school bathroom, they would always kiss the big bathroom mirror and leave unsightly marks. Of course the poor janitor had to clean the mirror everyday, painstakingly, and tiresomely. The janitor appealed to the girls, but to no avail, but carried on cleaning everyday. One day, the girls asked him how he stayed so faithful to his job. And he replied saying that he didn't mind cleaning the mirrors with toilet water every day..it was fine for him. Of course, the girls, grossed out, never did that kissing thing again.

And that should be our attitude to sin, like toilet water, like disgusting filthy toilet water. We should stay far far away, it's terrible, monstrous and doesn't deserve our slightest attention. After walking in the light and with God for a long time, we should look back on sin with hatred rather than we with sense of longing to go back to those past pleasures. They aren't pleasures! It's as pleasurable as kissing toilet water. It's sickening. Stay far.

Sin: Enjoy first, pay later. But with God, it's always pay first and enjoy later. Take your pick. It's not that difficult to choose, yet so many people, including myself, find it so hard to make the choice. Let's view life with our cones and not let our rods get to work in the darkness, lest we delude ourselves again...