God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The aim of God in creating and redeeming us is the delight He Himself enjoys in seeing His creatures delight in Him. As Edwards said, “[The] glorifying of God is nothing but rejoicing in the manifestations of Him.” In other words, the purpose of the knowledge of God is the enjoyment of God because “God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him.”
Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.
Clean sweet potatoes and place in a large pot. Cover with water. Bring to a
boil. Cook only until they're partially done and still firm. Drain and
peel. Slice potatoes. and arrange a layer in a greased casserole dish. Dot
the potatoes with butter and salt. Add a layer of bananas. Sprinkle the
brown sugar and cinnamon mixture over bananas. Add one third of the drained
pineapple. Repeat each layer. Add one final layer of sweet potato and top
with the remaining 1/3 pineapple. Combine the pineapple and lime juices
with the honey and pour over the sweet potato casserole. Bake in a
preheated oven 350 oven for 40 minutes, or until browned on top.
Me ke aloha, Mary
Recipe by: Bonnie Kealoha
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by MarySpero@prodigy.com (MS MARY E SPERO) on
May 17, 1998
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