Settle for the best chocolate

While preparing to teach this week’s lesson, “Humility”, I was reminded of the admonition: “don’t settle for less” when I read Zeph 1:12. The Judahites had settled into ruined state of pride, and basically settled for less. How are we doing the same today?

Recipes for flavoring chocolate call for use of oils rather than extracts since extracts contain water, which ruins the chocolate (it thickens and becomes hard). Illustrate this to your class by passing out creamy chocolate for members to taste versus pieces of hard, bitter chocolate. Which is best is obvious. Say, in a similar way, a wrong ingredient, like pride, can ruin one’s life. Why settle for less? Avoid pride.