Obedient Ingredient

June 26, 2010

"The Obedient Ingredient"

You may worry about me when you begin to read this blog, but wait until the end to catch my drift.  Each morning in our worship time, I'm the designated reader and after we've each had our private time of reading the Word, I read aloud from a book that we feel would stretch us and move us to a deeper level with God - so that to tell you, we are reading "In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day" by Mark Batterson.  This book was recommended to me by my lifetime friend, pastor Jim Hill.  Strange title, but it's biblical, wouldn't you know.  If you want to check it out it's found in 2nd Samuel 23: 20 & 21.  Benaiah was a lion chaser.  I know about lion chasers - I've lived with one for a very long time, but there again you know my history so I don't have to be redundant.

This morning I was reading about God being four dimensional and I am three dimensional which means I can only be in one place at a time.  I can't travel into the past or into the future because, in one dimension, time is linear.   He talked about Planck length (I'm clueless on this one) and quantum mechanics - duh. . . but I got it!!!  God is all around us all the time - he is not bound by limitations as we are.  So knowing what my limits are and knowing that I cannot fathom God's limitlessness - I wanted to know - how to I get to God? It is very simple:

Faith gives us the dimensional freedom to overcome our human limitations by exiting space/time via prayer. . . I can do this!

Now back to you wondering where in the world I'm going with this obedient ingredient thing ~ I love to cook and when I watch TV I find myself always going to the "Food" channel or "Cook" channel.  There is a wonderful chef on the "Cook" channel named Roger Mookie, I hope I spelled his name correctly, anyway he bases everything that he cooks on any given show by what he calls, the obedient ingredient.   So I was thinking this morning when I read this passage, hey, this thing called "Prayer" is the obedient ingredient that takes me from my 3 dimension self into a beautiful thing called "Faith" thereby I find myself in the Presence of God my Father.  Knowing Him through prayer and by faith believing the impossible I see my circumstances in a different light or should I say in a different dimension - God comes to where I am and by faith I see life through His eyes.  You may ask if I'm a Lion Chaser and I'd have to say, I signed up, but I'm  scared spit less. . . maybe that is where faith comes in.  I'll have to let God go with me into the pit, because, if He doesn't go, I'm surely not going. . . and I don't like snowy days or lions,  but He shows up for those as well. 

The bottom line:  If you want God to be with you when you fall into a pit, you must use the obedient ingredient.  That's my story and I'm sticking by it!  Paulette woods