A promise must be kept, even when it turns out to cost us more than we expected. Inconvenience does not dissolve obligation. Inconvenience makes promise-keeping all the more beautiful, even God-like. God is a promise-maker and a promise-keeper. He made us covenantal beings living in a covenantal universe. Our lives unfold with his beauty as we receive, believe, make and keep promises. It costs us. But it cost God too. His cross inspires in us the depth of personal character that doesn’t go with the flow but keeps a promise even when unforeseeable eventualities make it hard. The unforeseeableness of the future is the very reason why we make promises. It’s why promises are valuable. In a world of contingencies, promise-keeping is the glue that holds us together... Let’s cheerfully and wholeheartedly keep our word, no matter what. It’s the Christlike thing to do.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Bread	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	c	All-purpose flour*
4	c	Yellow commeal
1 3/4	c	Nonfat dry milk
1/3	c	Baking powder
2	ts	Salt
1 3/4	c	Shortening

INSTRUCTIONS

From:    LD Goss <ldgoss@METRONET.COM>
Date:    Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:47:47 -0500
Mix flour, cornmeal, dry milk, baking powder and salt. Cut in shortening
completely. Refrigerate in airtight container up to I month.   12 cups mix.
*lf using self-rising flour, reduce baking powder to 2 tablespoons plus 1
1/2 teaspoons and omit salt. Use stoneground cornmeal if possible.
EAT-L Digest 14 July 96
From the EAT-L recipe list.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

A Message from our Provider:

“Questioning God? He made the brain cells you think with”

Trials can devastate us because we are often looking as to how they are affecting our lives. Yet when we can die to self and desire God’s glory as a result of them, we are given an entirely different outlook. We can actually rejoice if we know God’s name, God’s glory is being magnified as witnessed through our response to the trial. Specifically how? When others see our Christlike attitude – gratitude verses complaining, kindness verses anger, faith verses anxiety, contentment verses greed and joy verses bitterness – God is glorified. It means very little when godly character and spiritual fruit only appear when things are going well in our lives.

Randy Smith