It is possible to endure in this life but to do it in a self-righteous, resentful survivor-spirit that is self-pitying and angry at those who do not shoulder the burden with you while being inwardly proud of your grit. Instead of the fruit of the Spirit, there is bitterness and joylessness. In truth, God may not consider this kind of life to be one of endurance, and certainly not one of “great endurance” (2 Cor. 6:4). Paul endured with the inner graces of the Spirit. Sweet endurance is what the Scripture here enjoins… Sweet in-Spirited endurance testiﬁes to the reality of Christ and that He is worth our trust and service.

Kent Hughes

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Desert, Digest, Fatfree	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Rolled Oats
1	c	Non-fat milk (was: buttermilk)
1	c	Wheat flour
1/2	c	Brown sugar
1/2	c	Applesauce (I used chunky)
2		Egg whites or egg substitute
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Salt (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

~ Soak oats in milk for ~1 hour.  Combine the rest of the ingredients, mix
well, and bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes in a muffin tin.
~ Makes 12 medium-sized muffins (guaranteed to turn you into a marathoner
;-) Shared by Mike D. Kail
From Fatfree Digest April-May 1994, Formatting by Sue Smith (using MMCONV)
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/fatfreex.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus feels your pain”

In the Bible itself, the two authors, human and divine, do not simply stand side by side. Rather, each points to the other and affirms the presence and operation of the other… God Himself points out the importance of the human authors… God Himself requires us to interpret the words of Scripture against the background of what we know about the human author. We cannot simply ignore the human author, when we concentrate on what God is saying… [The human author] is not just any human author. He is the one through whom God speaks. His own intentions are that we should reckon with this. It is not a denial of human authorship, but an affirmation of it, when we pay attention to God speaking… Hence there is a unity of meaning and a unity of application.

Vern Poythress