Bag of Lies

On Sunday mornings, I enjoy watching “Biographies” on A and E channel. They are on at 7am and 8am. I normally am able to see the whole 7am episode and half of the 8am one. This morning, the biography was on Dana Plato who played Kimberly Drummond on Different Stokes. Her story was a sad one; she died in 1999 at the age of 34 of a drug overdose. Hearing from friends and eyewitnesses of her last years was heart breaking. The hardest to hear from was her son. He ended up killing himself last year at the age of 25. That too is very sad. At the end of the episode, I kept thinking of James 1:15 (Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.).

Dana was adopted and her adopted father left her when he and her mother divorced. Her adopted mom died after a long time illness so she was pretty much abandoned at an early age. This sense of abandonment caused her to search for love and fulfillment. This searched caused her to experiment with sex, drugs, and alcohol. She was fired from Different Strokes because she got pregnant. Everything she tried to fill the void still left her longing for something else; not even the son she loved dearly could fill the void. The substance she used the most to fill the emptiness ended up killing her at an early age; drugs. James was right when he wrote when sin is accomplished (or complete) it brings about death.

We have sin in our lives because of Adam and Eve. Satan sold them a bag of lies. They bought this bag thinking they would be like God, and in a sense they were. They became aware of sin and since they broke the only rule God had given them they were cut off from Him. Since they were cut off from God, so are we. It is only because of God’s love for us, He created a way we can be complete again.

The only way we can fill the void we have is to accept what Christ did on the cross and accept Him as our Lord and Savior. If you want to learn more about what this means, please read further down and there are some posts that high light God’s love.