While Cooking…

I was gathering the ingredients for making biscuits. As I started scooping the flour into a bowl, I was reminded of a chapter from Lysa Terkeurst’s book, It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way! In this chapter, she talked about how your life can be shattered to a point that it is beyond recognizable; resembling dust. The flour reminded me of the dust.

She went on further to talk about the fact that dust is what God can use and will use to remake that which was shattered. Needless to say, I could see God was going to give me a lesson today while I made biscuits!

The process of making biscuits is fascinating to me. (Thanks Grandmama for teaching me!) All the different textures and ingredients cause a chemical reaction that provides you with hot, buttery goodness! Going from raw flour to a hot, buttery biscuit is an extremely hands-on process.

After I scoop the flour into a bowl, I add a small amount of sugar and either shortening or butter. I use a pastry blender to “cut” the shortening into the flour until it is mixed in well. I then add in milk until I get the desired consistency. Afterwards, I put the mixture unto a floured sheet of wax paper and begin kneading it to the desired consistency. Once that is reached, I begin molding and patting it into a 1” thick circle. I then use my biscuit cutter to cut the biscuits and put them on the pan. After I have cut all I can out of the circle, I knead it again into a another 1” thick circle and I commence to cutting more biscuits; repeating the process until the dough is transformed into 10-12 biscuits.

Before I begin that biscuit-making process, I preheat the oven to about 400 degrees so that when I am done, the biscuits can go into the oven at the right temperature. It takes about 10-12 minutes to cook those biscuits.

God showed me that just as I can turn the flour into biscuits, even better, he can turn the shattered-beyond-recognition pieces of our life and make something out of it. He can cut it and stir it and knead it and mold it and shape it and heat it so that it is created for His great purpose! What situation has shattered your life beyond recognition?

I love Jeremiah 18:1-6 that talks about The Potter and the Clay

18 This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Jeremiah, go down to the potter’s house. I will give you my message there.”

3 So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working with clay at the wheel. 4 He was making a pot from clay. But there was something wrong with the pot. So the potter used that clay to make another pot. With his hands he shaped the pot the way he wanted it to be.

5 Then this message from the Lord came to me: 6 “Family of Israel, you know that I can do the same thing with you. You are like the clay in the potter’s hands, and I am the potter.” This message is from the Lord.

God can put us back together again!

Okay, who thought about the song by Tramaine Hawkins, The Potter’s House? These lyrics mean something totally different now that I am grown and have lived more life.

“In case you have fallen by the wayside of life

Dreams and visions shattered, you’re all broken inside

You don’t have to stay in the shape that you’re in

The potter wants to put you back together again

Oh, the potter wants to put you back together again

In case your situation has turned upside down

And all that you’ve accomplished, is now on the ground

You don’t have to stay in the shape that you’re in

The potter wants to put you back together again

Oh, the potter wants to put you back together again

You who are broken, stop by the potter’s house

You who need mending, stop by the potter’s house

Give Him the fragments of your broken life

My friend, the potter wants to put you back together again

Oh, the potter wants to put you back together again”

You don’t have to stay in the shape that you’re in. Go see the Potter (God)! He desires to put you back together again! But you have to go!!

Will you?

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