All sin feels good, but all that feels good is not sin.
Sin must advertise itself. Just as when it all started with an innocent girl in a perfect garden, enticed to make things better than perfect", sin always advertises itself as positive, fun, pleasurable, beneficial, admirable, etc. Bottom line, the beginning of all sin feels good.
But, it's nothing more than an advertisement, a bait and switch, a trap. How does one bait a trap? With something irrestible. But it's still a trap. Soon the irrestible will turn to entrapment in one way or another, and then devastation.
This is true for all sin. It is tempting only because the first parts of sin feel good, feel right, are desirable. If sin presented itself as what it is, there would be no temptation. Drugs don't come offering a life of lonely misery of addiction and loss. No, they come with a very true promise of pleasure, relief from pain, escape to the weary. Pleasure. Goodness. A new friend. They appear to be just what we desire at the time. But that's the bait.
Don't fall for it. Be skeptical of anything that feels good up front. If it feels good, explore, look deeper and beyond. Where does this lead? What about tomorrow? Never trust what feels good at face value. All sin feels good.
The sin isn't in feeling good, the sin is in bypassing God. The sin is in the substitute. Our creator and father wants us to find peace and pleasure in his presence. And we will, but all else that promises peace or pleasure is a lie, a substitute, sin. God is our sole source of goodness. He is the only source that truly leads to eternal goodness. All other is a trap, leading to death and despair.
So be careful, be most wary of that which appears fun, pleasurable, easy, comforting. Be skeptical of the good things.
All sin feels good, but feeling good is not sin. Find the true source. And live.
