I was eating dinner with our guests this past week, and we were discussing how a butter cream frosting is made. (This kind of frosting garnished most of the cupcakes on Thursday. They were as delicious as they were messy!) My friend (and Bible student), Larry, described the raw ingredients as basically lard and powdered sugar. UGH!
I responded that this kind of food one eats on occasion, not as a regular practice, or they will be seeing a cardiologist!
One of our favorite desserts in our home is Cheryl’s famous “fudge pie.” It’s good eating, but you really don’t want to see the raw ingredients before she starts mixing things together! Once again, … UGH! (…with all deference to your culinary abilities, Sweetie!)
One has a hard time imagining a final product from its “raw ingredient state.” Tires, from oozing, sticky tree sap? Shiny pennies from a brittle, greenish ore? Windows from beach sand? The list could go on and on.
God, the Creator of all things, gave mankind this ability to imagine and dream and to reassemble his environment, to serve his needs on the Earth. God can do even greater things than we can imagine! One of the more fascinating things that God does is seen with the effects of His word: His WORD! I mean, what is a word? They are just vibrations sent through a medium to a listening ear. Those vibrations convey ideas and concepts. If they are God’s ideas and concepts, they strike at the heart of a person, where they really live, and they effect a change of life, if they are heeded.
God said, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isa. 55:8 – 11)
The word we sowed with our MCREST friends this past week will accomplish God’s purpose. We may not see the results. We don’t have to. God will, and that’s all that matters.
Bread from a raindrop? Wow! What God can do!
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