Has Paula Deen Cooked her Goose?

By now everyone knows that the Food Network has cancelled the queen-of-fried-foods TV star Paula Deen after she acknowledged using racial slurs 30 years ago.  What I find most significant about this debacle is what it revealed about the public: they are very unforgiving. What it reveals about Paula Deen, a self-confessed born-again Christian, is yet to be seen.  

Of course the earthlings cannot be expected to forgive—they have no basis for love and grace. But we believers can (and must) forgive because we have been forgiven (Col. 3:13). As a believer, Paula Deen is now in the hard position of forgiving those who have refused to pardon her. 

Unforgiveness is Satan’s most effective tool against us. Even as Paula’s fat-drenched foods slowly harden the arteries, so too, unforgiveness is a silent killer, but much faster. And if Paula does not watch her heart, she could turn from the ‘queen of butter’ into the ‘queen of bitter’ overnight.