We have everything we want at our fingertips today. The joy of the process has been long gone from this generation. When we have a society built on doing every thing quicker, stronger, better, bigger, we lose the opportunity to enjoy the process. Cooking a meal from scratch is a lost art in our day. Those that still perform this act of love, gain joy from going through the process of preparing the food, then the gift they receive is the enjoyment of the food by their loved ones. While microwaving and preparing precooked meals may help us in devoting time to other things, the flavor, taste, nourishment, and memory of a home cook meal can never be replaced.
Sadly, many Christians may seek to be microwaved into seasoned saints, performing works. A life of service to our Loving Father is a good thing, but we have to remember that the Father has His way of preparing us for that service. Our Father is a Master Chief and loves to take care in making Kingdom cooked meals for mankind to feast on!!! Look at our example in the form of our Savior, Jesus Christ. God slow baked Jesus for roughly thirty three years before God served Him on a platter for the World's consumption. "But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world”, (John 6:50-51). God is in no rush, but He is a gentleman and will only use those who choose to freely give of their bodies to be transformed into a beautiful meal that the Lord will prepare. God can and does use any ingredient for His glory, so it is ultimately our Will to determine whether we will be used in a microwave dinner for the world's consumption or as part of a four coarse meal. We can disqualify ourselves from the four coarse meal by not choosing to submit to the process of sanctification. Remember the memory of a microwaved meal may last an hour, but the memory of a four coarse meal may last a life time. Today, choose to be an ingredient that the Master Chief will use in one of His special feasts, submit to the process!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying the process on purpose!!!!!
Romans 12
A Living Sacrifice
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
1 Thessalonians 4
Plea for Purity
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given[a] us His Holy Spirit.
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