Ben Rogozensky was arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia and charged with obstructing officers and giving false information. While waiting for his attorney in an empty room in the DeKalb County courthouse, he excused himself to go to the bathroom. There was a stool in the men’s room and he used it to raise himself up so he could move some of the ceiling tiles and escape into the ceiling. He then proceeded to crawl away through the ceiling. Things were going well until he reached a weak spot and the ceiling collapsed. Rogozensky fell through the ceiling, dropping ten feet, landing in the middle of the judge’s chambers! He did what he wanted to do, giving no thought to the possible consequences and his misguided escape attempt made the national news!

Doing what we want to do, and thinking it won’t have any consequences is as old as the Garden of Eden. There Adam and Eve were told that they could have everything that grew in the Garden except the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God desired for them to thoroughly enjoy his creation with one exception. But Adam and Eve could not be content with what God planned for them. They wanted to follow their own desires. And that is the essence of sin – doing what we want rather than what God wants.

We think that we can escape the consequences of our sin, but like Ben Rogozensky, eventually we’ll drop straight into the courtroom of God!