If God is in fact our Enemy with only destructive intentions toward us, why do we experience any good at all? It isn’t surprising that life is painful. What’s surprising is that life is joyful. What do our simple, daily joys mean? Is God pretending to be our Friend, is He setting us up for the ultimate nasty surprise? Or is God sending us signals every day that His heart is loving and kind, so kind that we can go back to Him in repentance and find His arms open to us?

Stephen Charnock

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Flour
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Ground cinnamon
1/4	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Ground nutmeg
2		Egg whites; beaten
3/4	c	Brown sugar
3/4		C.shredded peeled apple
3	tb	Oil
1/2	ts	Finely shredded orange peel

INSTRUCTIONS

In a small bowl stir together flour, soda, cinnamon, baking powder, and
nutmeg. In a large bowl stir together egg whites, brown sugar, apple, oil,
and orange peel. Stir flour mixture into apple mixture just til combined.
Spray an 8x4x2-inch loaf pan with nonstick spray coating. Pour batter into
pan. Bake in a 350 degrees oven-gas mark 4. For 45-50 minutes. Check with
toothpick to see if it comes out clean,
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #398 by Penney Wilfort <penney-w@pe.net>
on Nov 18, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it. #A.W. Tozer”

God’s delegated authority, the necessity of submission, the role of government in acting to protect and preserve the health of the people, the call for respect and honor—I find myself joyful, grateful. I am joyful to obey the mandates of my government as it tries to lead through a grueling, opaque situation. I’m grateful for God’s good gift of government, and grateful even for my government. Behind it, I see Him. In its authority, I see His. Of course, this government will lead imperfectly. They will make poor decisions. They will make mistakes. They will even act sinfully at times. They are, after all, human beings and subject to every kind of frailty, sin, and limitation. But God was not unaware of what was in the heart of men when he commanded through Peter “be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme or to governors as sent by him” (1 Peter 2:13-14).

Tim Challies