We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

According to the opening chapters of 2 Corinthians we see the progression from trials to the resultant joy. Consider how Paul’s life was filled with hardship: “Affliction” (1:4), “abundant…suffering” (1:5), “burdened excessively, beyond...strength” (1:8), “sentence of death within ourselves” (1:9), “sorrowful” (2:1), “affliction and anguish of heart” (2:4), “afflicted [and] perplexed” (4:8), “persecuted [and] struck down (4:9), “constantly being delivered over to death” (4:11), “beatings...imprisonments...tumults...labors...sleeplessness...hunger” (6:5), “dishonor [and] evil report” (6:8), “dying [and] punished (6:9) and “having nothing (6:10). And that only takes us through chapter 6! And might I add that most if not all of this was related to his faithful service to Christ. So how can you go from this agony to praise to God? Answer: It was Paul knowing that Christians need to “walk by faith [and] not by sight” (5:7). And it’s this faith that recalls that every promise of God is fulfilled to us in Christ (1:20). We know we are “established…and anointed…in Christ” (1:21). We are “sealed” and given “the [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as a pledge” (1:22). We are “reconciled to God” (5:20). As a result of these truths, we “do not lose heart” (4:1) because we are [controlled by] the love of Christ” (5:14)and through our trials we are learning in those trials to “trust [more]...in God who raises the dead” (1:9). So therefore while we are “sorrowful” as a result of trials, we are because of God's promises 'always rejoicing' (6:10).

Randy Smith

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Cranberry-peach-oatmeal Kugel

January 28, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Jewish		6	To 8

INGREDIENTS

1		Whole cranberry sauce
1		16 oz. sliced peaches
		without the juice [I used
		the peaches in light
		juice
		60% less calories no
		corn
		syrup]
2	c	Uncooked oatmeal
3/4	c	Flour
3/4	c	Oil, I used 1/4 it was OK
		but next time I'll try
		1/3
		cup
1	t	Cinnamon
3/4	c	Brown sugar, I used 1/4 cup
		and thought it was fine

INSTRUCTIONS

Source: Lincoln Square Synagogue Cookbook  serves 6-8 people (unless
one is smitten by its taste and hogs it  all!)  Mix dry ingredients
plus oil. Grease 8-inch square pan. Spread half  of dry ingredients in
pan. In separate bowl, drain peaches and mix  with cranberry sauce.
Pour that mixture into the pan. Add remaining  dry mixture. Bake
uncovered (I covered it) at 350 degrees for one  hour. Serve hot.
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #014, by Chava Willig Levy
<primerib@mail.idt.net> on Tue, 14 Jan 1997.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 151 Calories From Fat: 9 Total Fat: 1.1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 65.3mg Potassium: 96.7mg Carbohydrates: 32.3g Fiber: 2.3g Sugar: 3.4g Protein: 3.8g