Cinnamon Roll’s Rock

The café court is crowded this morning and there’s a long line at Cinnabon. Then you see it - unattended, golden brown and hot there it sits alone on a table. The aroma of cinnamon and icing fills the air. Your mouth starts to water and your stomach seems to get excited. You seem to hear voices in your head, “Take it and go eat it now!” … “But it’s not yours!” … “No one will know, there’s people everywhere, they can get another one!” … “You will know, and God will and it’s wrong” … “No, it will be all right, just take it and lets go.” So you casually pick it up and walk off, “Good, no one saw you, find a table quick and let’s enjoy!” ... “No wait, this is wrong, take it back!” … “You can’t do that, someone might see you, eat it quick and destroy the evidence!” So you sit down and take a big bite, “umm this is really good” you think as you lick the icing from the side of your lips. You start to eat faster anticipating the soft and delicious center. “Wait something is wrong,” now your stomach feels more guilty than excited and then suddenly, CRACK! Ouch! …you just bit into a rock. You spit it out and see with it pieces of what was once one of your teeth. Your mouth starts to ache immediately and it feels like someone just stuck an ice pick in your jaw. You yell out in pain, now everyone is looking at you. An officer comes to your table and says, “That looks like my missing cinnamon roll, did you pay for that?” and another nearby voice says, “No! I saw them take it.” So he decides to arrest you right in front of everyone, after all you just sold his breakfast. You plead, “But wait sir I need to get to the dentist I just broke one of my teeth and it’s hurting like crazy.” “Well I guess you did me a favor,” he says, “but I’m still takin you in, after we fill out all the paperwork then you can go to the dentist.” So you go, guilty and ashamed thinking, “This isn’t fair it was just a little cinnamon roll.” You fill out all the paperwork and get your summons to court. Now it’s time to go to the dentist, if you can get an appointment that is. Was it worth it?

Prov 20:17
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
NKJV

Bread gained by deceit is sweet but bitter trap when the crime’s complete.