My Brother hurt his foot, and it was swollen like three day road kill on 110* days. He is off work and is staying at home trying to keep his foot elevated. Wednesday I went to a fast food restaurant I don't like, because I was going to buy him his favorite biscuit, a Mountain Dew, and take it to him for breakfast.
Well, I order a biscuit for me and call him up, and he is feeling really bad, and just doesn't feel up to eating or company- not like him at all!! Now, I'm stuck with a biscuit, I really don't like, because I've already ordered it. I got back in the truck, and took a bite of it going down the road, and immediately wrapped it back up. Blahhh!!
I took that biscuit and put in in the fridge at work, carried it home and placed in the fridge before church, and then this morning, warmed it up and took another bite. I paid for this thing, and I'm gonna eat it!!....
I just couldn't, and it bothered me as to why I didn't like the thing. So, I'm thinking about this as I'm taking my daughter to school and realized I didn't like the bread of the biscuit, it was too thick, and too much. I blurted out to my daughter:
"There's too much biscuit in the bread!!"
I realized what I had said and corrected myself, and since I had her attention, explained I couldn't taste the meat and cheese in the biscuit, because it had too much bread.
Sometimes our spiritual lives are the same way. There's too much fluff and dough in our lives, and Jesus, the "meat" of the dinner is covered up.
There is nothing more we need than Jesus. There is nothing more we need to add, or fluff up, to others, than Jesus and his love for them.
John 14:6 (NIV)
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:16-17 (NIV)
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
In this busy world, we are bombarded with things other than God. Things which promise to make us rich, strong, powerful, attractive, healthy. Things which add to the batter and make the bread thicker.
There is only one thing which will give you peace. Only one thing which will fill the hole in your heart, to make it whole.......
Jesus.
Father God,
Thank You for speaking in strange ways, even biscuits, and thank You for letting me listen, and to hear Your voice. To know You speak to those of us who have acknowledge You before men, is a Blessing. Let our hearts not become solid like a stone, and turn from You, but become soft in love and humility. Let our actions be bold, and let our oppositions be seen, for Your glory, and Yours alone.
Guide us with the Holy Spirit. Let us proclaim Your name and show Your love for the lost. May our walk match our talk each and ever minute of the days, and nights.
Bless our n ation, and may we be the first to humble ourselves, and let the judging of others, be left up to you.
Thank You, for allowing us to call You Father, Redeemer, Healer, and Savior. Thank You for using us, despite our past, or our current failures. Let us renew our lives, to Your will for each of us.
It is in the mighty name of Jesus, we ask and claim these things, Amen!!
God Bless,
David B.
