The worst thing that can happen to a Christian is not persecution, physical injury, or death. In many respects, these are the best things that can happen to us. Jesus said that we are blessed when we are “persecuted for righteousness’ sake” (Matthew 5:10). Paul decided to “take pleasure in infirmities…for Christ's sake… For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10). Jesus said to His followers, “My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do” (Luke 12:4). This makes perfect sense, because for the believer, “to be absent from the body” is “to be present with the Lord.” None of these earthly threats should hold any sway over us whatsoever.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Caribbean		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Butter
4	md	Bananas
1/3	c	Brown sugar
1	tb	Lemon juice
1/2	ts	Ground allspice
1/4	c	Light rum

INSTRUCTIONS

Place butter in square baking dish. Heat at 350* until melted; rotate dish
to coat bottom. Cut bananas crosswise into halves; cut each half lengthwise
into halves. Place cut side down in baking dish. Mix brown sugar, lemon
juice and allspice; drizzle over butter. Bake uncovered 15 min. Heat rum
until warm; ignite and pour over bananas.
Posted to EAT-L Digest  by Shawn Zehnder Lea <slea@HIGHTOWERSERVICES.COM>
on Nov 24, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. #Desmond Tutu”

John Bunyan says that he never forgot the divinity he taught, because it was burnt into him when he was on his knees. That is the way to learn the gospel. If you learn it upon your knees you will never unlearn it. That which “men” teach you, men can unteach you – if I am merely convinced by reason, a better reasoner may deceive me. If I merely hold my doctrinal opinions because they seem “to me” to be correct, I may be led to think differently another day. But if “God” has taught them to me – he who is himself pure truth – I have not learned amiss, but I have so learned that I shall never unlearn, nor shall I forget.

C.H. Spurgeon