Augustus Gloop

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-da-dee
If you are wise, you’ll listen to me

What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?
Eating as much as an elephant eats
What are you at, getting terribly fat?
What do you think will come… of… that?
I don’t like the look of it

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da
If you’re not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do

1971 Film

The defining factor of Augustus was the fact that he had a world of sweets around him and he could enjoy any of them, but became too greedy and went headfirst into the chocolate river only to get sucked up out of the river by a tube heading to the fudge room.

I think we can draw a direct line from this scene to the opening chapters of the Bible. Adam and Eve were given a world of beauty and wonder and everything was open to them to enjoy, accept for one thing, The tree of knowledge of good and evil.

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.

Genesis 2:17 NASB

However, Satan crept in and planted a seed of doubt, which then led the man and woman to eat of this tree out of greed for knowledge.

Sin is everywhere, and we see it in the open, but it also creeps into places that we do not expect to see it.

We can find it in the Church and in the lives of Christians. The greed and control we hold so valuable as an American societal norm, has crept into the church. We have molded Jesus us into our image, instead of letting the Biblical Jesus shape and mold us.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another. And so that is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

David Platt – Christian Post

Jesus in the gospel of Luke talks about the greed with someone trying to divide his father’s estate.

Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.

Luke 12:15 NASB

“Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”

Luke 12:21 NASB

Wealth by itself isn’t a sin. It is putting wealth above Jesus that is the huge problem. If we are to live a life like Christ then we need to live a life for and through Christ. Let us not live the life of Augustus Gloop.