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Sprinkles Cupcakes! Have you ever had one? Just one? I wasn’t even sure that was possible. Ray, should we get more to take back to our place? No. Okay.

Ray and I did it at Disney Springs’ Sprinkles shop this last week. I had one amazing, mouth-watering coconut cream cupcake. Moist on the inside. Not too heavy. Just the right amount of frosting sprinkled with coconut flakes. Yum!

It was one of those worship moments of being grateful to God for making all the things that went into this delicacy. And grateful for the hands that made it!

But…you know that saying…you can’t eat just one? Well, I did.

But then I wanted another one. It was our last day in Orlando, so where was I to get another one? Hey, maybe we can swing by Sprinkles on the way to the airport? No? Okay.

Well, maybe there’s a Sprinkles at the airport. No? Okay.

When we landed in Denver. Hey, why don’t we swing by Buttercream Cupcakery (10 miles north of our home) on the way home? No? Okay.

Well, honey, do you want to run to the store and pick up some tonight? No? Okay.

What in the world was going on here? I’d only eaten one amazing cupcake. But then I thought about it, remembered it, craved it, wanted it. I allowed this little cupcake to master me!

In 1 Corinthians 6:12, Paul writes:

“All things are lawful for me,
but not all things are profitable.
All things are lawful for me,
but I will not be mastered by anything.”

Here’s what I take away from this when it comes to my food issues.

1. I can eat anything.
2. Everything isn’t good for me.
3. Nothing must master me!

It’s not wrong that I ate the cupcake. There have been times in my life that I would’ve felt guilty for eating carbs, sugar, cake, fat–you name it. But God is saying I can eat anything. It’s so freeing to not be driven by the laws of a diet.

The truth is, though, that everything isn’t good for me. And I can make choices that benefit me just because they benefit me–not because it’s a rule. I’ll blog about this later.

Nothing must master me! There are foods (and we all know our trigger foods) that can lead us into bondage. Craving them. Wanting more. Eating the entire bag! Making dozens of cupcakes (yes I did that weekend, but I gave most of them away!).

God wants me to be free. He doesn’t want me to be enslaved to anything. Not cupcakes. Not chips. Nothing!

And when I experience something trying to master me, it’s time for me to cry out to God for deliverance. And it is God who sets me free!

Again, God has given me the freedom to eat anything. But I choose to stay away from the things I know will ultimately claw at me with “more, more, more.”

The taste of freedom is so sweet!