Cakes and Battles

I find that we often go through many different trials as we venture on our life’s journey of walking with God. Most of the time, the reaction that I see many of us have as we go through these trials, is that we tend to look at the trial itself instead of looking at what God wants to show us in and through the outcome. Let’s take baking a cake for example: When we look at the individual ingredients--flour, eggs, salt, etc.--we would not want to consume each one of those ingredients individually. As a matter of fact, the thought of it is rather appalling. We need to look at our trials as a whole and ask, “What is God trying to show me?” instead of “Why is God doing this to me?” When baking a cake, we look at the final outcome--a nice, big, moist, delicious cake--not the individual portions.Also, when the time comes to cook the cake, we cannot become impatient and pull it out of the oven too soon, or else it will be ruined. Just as gold and silver go through the flame to be purified, we need to also go through the heat of trials to be purified in the name if the Lord! Our ending outcome will turn out to be a greater blessing than anything we can imagine! If we try to run away before completing the will of God, then we will ruin whatever plans he had for us, or we will end up making things a lot worse for OURSELVES. Just look at Jonah! He went through a LOT of chaos before turning back to God. Most importantly, we need to ALWAYS remember what the word of God says: “And we know that all things work together for GOOD to those WHO LOVE GOD..” ~ Romans 8:28

How will YOUR cake turn out?