God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that He is benign, that He will acquiesce as we toy with His reality and co-opt Him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.
Jacob is about to enter the Promised Land. He will be one of the venerated Patriarchs of the faith. But before Jacob can become Israel, the man must be broken. Jacob needs to learn that his life is to be one of continual striving with God, but doing it with full dependence on God. He will learn that with God there is a continual heat from the refiner’s fire, but through the adversity there is an unspeakable joy in the journey. And though God probably won’t be wrestling with any of us physically like He did with Jacob, there is a continual tension of finding our greatest peace when we are most intimate in close communion with God. At times we struggle, but in the pain we learn to submit to His will, allow Him to expose our defects, yield to the wounds He creates and then trust Him that the pain is for our greatest good as the “old man” is further put to death. If we act in the flesh and run away or defend ourselves or blame others or whine and complain, we’ll never experience this. As creatures so prone to follow our selfish instincts, there is a serenity that comes when God wrestles us to the ground, breaks us further of our pride and reminds us that our sufficiency is only in Him.
Fresh Blueberries OR 1 c canned blueberries;drained OR 1 c Cranberries;chopped
1
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Grated orange or lemon rind
INSTRUCTIONS
Sift dry ingred. together. Beat eggs in a separate bowl. Add butter and
milk to the eggs. Combine the liquid and the dry ingred. with a few
strokes. Fold into the batter, before the dry ingred. are completely
moist--either the blueberries or the cranberries. Fill well greased muffin
pans 2/3 full and bake in a 400 degree preheated oven for 20-25 min.
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