Encouragement
The life of a Christian is never stagnant or dormant. We never sit around here on earth playing a harp and waiting for God to call us home... You see, God is always up to something in our lives and hearts….
I was thinking about the process of making bread: You get all the correct ingredients. The flour, the yeast, oil, everything you need per your recipe for the type of bread you want to make. Maybe it will be whole wheat and raisin, or 7-grain, or pumpernickel …. Perhaps sourdough or sweet rolls. Whatever it is, you get out your recipe and your ingredients.
Is it bread yet? No, they are just ingredients. But the experienced baker knows how to measure and sift and combine the ingredients, how to stir and mix them in such a way that they become a soft, pliable dough.
Is it bread yet? No, the dough must be kneaded a bit and then placed into a loaf pan conforming to the image of the pan), covered and left to rise – that is when the yeast makes the dough double in size.
Is it bread yet? No it is still dough… dough in the resting stage. Have you ever felt that way? Well don’t worry, if you are in the resting or a rising stage, hang in there…
After it rises, it is punched down again and rests and rises for a second time. Then, the loaf in the pan is placed into a hot oven to bake.
Have you ever been in a hot spot and wondered what on earth God was doing?
God was turning you into his desired recipe. He mixes us up, and stirs up our lives, adding all the right ingredients to make us become what we were meant to be. We are all not identical. There are similarities, but each is unique.
Now is it bread? Almost! God, the “Baker” knows just how long to turn up the heat in our lives so that we become not just a counter full of random ingredients, or a pan full of sloppy, tasteless, useless dough. He applies the heat and we “rise to the occasion” (pardon the pun) and become bread.
… next time you regret the trials you are facing, or have a time where you feel mixed up, or a season of resting has come upon you… remember, God might just be making a wonderful loaf of bread out of you….. and He might be using you as a way to feed the masses. Allow Him to work, and allow your life to become a fragrance of something wonderful to a hungry world.
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