Smoothies, Donuts and Sin

Every morning I get up to have breakfast. We have an assortment of breakfast cereal. It is mostly healthy stuff. I remember when I first got married I stocked up on Capn Crunch and Sugar Smacks because my Mom hardly ever bought it for us as kids and I was now a grown man and could make my own decisions. Can you say irony? Lately I have been on a smoothie kick. A banana, a slice of pineapple, some whey protein, and some orange juice and I am good to go. Today I arrived at the church and tried to stare down a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts someone brought in. I lasted about 40 minutes or so. I guess my question is not how to get better at resisting but why we have donuts in the first place. I don't mean why we had donuts at church today, but why did anyone ever invent donuts. Who decided that fruit was not good enough for breakfast and instead decided to deep fry some balls of dough and then slather them with sugar and icing? I think it is part of our sinful nature. I am serious. As creatures we seem terribly difficult to satisfy. God has fruit literally growing on trees, vegetables springing up out of the ground. We don't have to go into the laboratory to conjure up stuff that is really healthy for us. We have to go there to create stuff that is really unhealthy that will clog our arteries and make our thighs rub together. The Psalmist says that the Lord has filled my life with good things. Indeed he has and yet I go looking all the time for things that are not good. Today I want to pay attention to all the good things my God keeps trying to give me and stay away from all the stuff that keeps pouring out of the lab.
"Ho, come to the waters. Come buy and eat. Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why do you spend you money on what does not satisfy and your wages on what is not bread? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good and delight your soul with the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live." Isaiah 55:1-3