God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
God's holiness and righteous glory have been desecrated, defamed, and blasphemed by our sin. It is with a holy God that we have to do in our guilt! And there can be no justification, no reconciliation, no cleansing of our conscience, unless the holiness of God is honored and the defamation of His righteousness is repaired. The urgency of our problem with guilt is not that we feel miserable, but that God's name has been blasphemed. We live in a day with such a horrendously inflated view of human potential and such a miserably tiny view of God's holiness that we can scarcely understand what the real problem of guilt is. The real problem is not, 'How can God be loving and yet condemn people with such little sins?' The real problem is, 'How can God be righteous if He acquits such miserable sinners as we?' There can be no lasting remedy for guilt which does not deal with God's righteous indignation against sin. That's why there had to be a sacrifice. And not just any sacrifice, but the sacrifice of the Son of God! No one else, and no other act, could repair the defamation done to the glory of God by our sins. But when Jesus died for the glory of the Father, satisfaction was made. The glory was restored. Righteousness was demonstrated. Henceforth it is clear that when God, by grace, freely justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5), He is not indifferent to the demands of justice. It is all based on the grand transaction between the Father and the Son on the morning of Good Friday at Calvary. No other gospel can take away our guilt because no other gospel corresponds to the cosmic proportions of our sin in relation to God.
Let thy great joy and comfort evermore be, to have His pleasure done in thee, though in pains, sickness, persecutions, oppressions, or inward griefs and pressures of heart, coldness or barrenness of mind, darkening of thy will and senses, or any temptations spiritual or bodily.
From: "Sharon H. Frye" <shfrye@PEN.K12.VA.US>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 15:18:24 EDT
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Generously grease an 8x8 pan (or cast iron
skillet) and put it in the oven to get hot while you mix up the bread.
In medium bowl, combine flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Stir in remaining ingredients, beating by hand JUST until well mixed.
(There will still be a few lumps.) Pour batter into hot, prepared pan. Bake
for 18-22 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cut into squares, and serve hot.
Personal note: As a kid, we would crumble cornbread into a glass of milk
for an afternoon snack. I still love it this way, but my daughter thinks
it's disgusting!
PS...I do have Granny's recipe for authentic southern Hush Puppies if you'd
like that one....
EAT-L Digest 9 August 96
From the EAT-L recipe list. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.
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