But there are some who say, “It is hard for God to choose some and leave others.” Now, I will ask you one question. Is there any of you here this morning who wishes to be holy, who wishes to be regenerate, to leave off sin and walk in holiness? “Yes, there is,” says someone, “I do.” Then God has elected you. But another says, “No; I don’t want to be holy; I don’t want to give up my lusts and my vices.” Why should you grumble, then, that God has not elected you to it? For if you were elected you would not like it, according to your own confession. If God this morning had chosen you to holiness, you say you would not care for it. Do you not acknowledge that you prefer drunkenness to sobriety, dishonesty to honesty? You love this world’s pleasures better than religion; then why should you grumble that God has not chosen you to religion? If you love religion, He has chosen you to it. If you desire it, He has chosen you to it. If you do not, what right have you to say that God ought to have given you what you do not wish for?

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		Enough graham cracker crumbs mixed with melted butter or margarine to make them stick together, form a crust, and line a 9×13 glass baking dish, sides too
1		(large) boxes chocolate pudding (fat free works too) made per directions, chilled or at least cool (up to 2)
		Cool whip
		Decorations, chocolate sprinkles, etc if desired

INSTRUCTIONS

Line the baking dish with your graham cracker crust mixture, pour and
spread evenly the pudding over the graham cracker crust. Top entire mixture
with a nice layer of cool whip. The entire mix should fill your baking
dish. Chill and serve. Yum-Yum! =)
Posted to EAT-L Digest 21 October 96
Date:    Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:00:54 -0700
From:    Lorien Carrillo <[email protected]>

A Message from our Provider:

“Love – a gift from God”

What’s holding you back from serving the Lord? Potentially your answer is that you feel insufficient and inadequate. That is a humble response which is good, but to leave it there and keep yourself on the shelf is disobedience. I would make the argument that your inadequacy is not an obstacle, but the essential requirement needed so that you might trust the Lord to work His power through you. As one author said, your weakness and God’s strength perform an unbeatable combination. So you feel inadequate? So did Gideon in his military weakness and Isaiah in his sin and Jeremiah in his youth and Ezekiel in his fear. Join the crowd of God’s most outstanding leaders whose weaknesses were made strong when they humbly depended on God to work through them (2 Cor. 3:4-5).

Randy Smith