God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Mercy even with us is an optional virtue; we do not have to be merciful. We usually admire people who are, but we do not say that people must be so. We say everybody must be just. We say, for example, an employer, if he agrees to pay a certain wage, must pay that particular wage. If he does not pay it, then he is unjust and is liable to a lawsuit. All our contracts are based on the integrity and honesty and justice of people with whom we do business. They are actually subject to trials and imprisonment and even execution if they violate their duty of man to man. What about mercy among men? We love it. We admire it. We encourage it. We sometimes practice it. But we do not say mercy is obligatory… If this is true even of human affairs, we can see immediately that God does not have to be merciful. He gave us life and conscience. He gave us intelligence to meet our obligations, and He has a right to hold us responsible for using them. He has no further obligation to forgive us if we do not. We say that the Judge of all the earth cannot do wrong, but we cannot say that the Judge of all the earth must be merciful.
They may seem weak in the eyes of the worldly strong. They may seem foolish in the eyes of the worldly wise. But the Gospel message is the power of God unto salvation, and the Gospel means are effectual to salvation. These are the Spiritual instruments given by God with which Christian congregational Spiritual life is nurtured, the Spirit’s tools of grace and growth in grace appointed by God in the Bible.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter abd flour a 9 by 5 by 3 inch
pan and set aside. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking
soda and salt; set aside. Beat butter and sigar together until light and
fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating about 1 minute after each
addition. Add the sifted ingredients alternately with the sour cream and
chocolate chunks, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. (The
batter will be quite thick.) Turn the batter into the prepared loaf pan and
bake 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes. To test, stick a toothpick in the
center; bread is ready when toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in pan 15
minutes and remove. Makes one loaf. (From "Leftovers", page 43).
ALIN@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU
(ALICE FERRIS)
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