God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
In trial and weakness and trouble, He seeks to bring us low, until we learn that His grace is all, and to take pleasure in the very thing that brings us and keeps us low. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. His presence filling and satisfying our emptiness, becomes the secret of humility that need never fail. The humble man has learned the secret of abiding gladness. The weaker he feels, the lower he sinks, and the greater his humiliations appear, the more power and the presence of Christ are his portion.
See how red your guilt is. Mark the scarlet stain. If you were to wash your soul in the Atlantic Ocean, you might incarnadine every wave that washes all its shores, and yet the crimson spots of your transgression would still remain. But plunge into the “fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins,” and in an instant you are whiter than snow. Every speck, spot, and stain of sin is gone, and gone forever.
Preheat oven to 350. Grease well and flour 2 9 inch round layer pans 1 1/2
inches deep or 1 13x9x2 inch oblong pan or 2 1/2 dozen medium cupcake pans.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cream shortening until soft.
Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy after each addition.
Add eggs and vanilla nad beat until thick and lemon colored. Add dry
ingredients alternately with bananas. Blend well after each addition.
Bake: 9 inch round layers--30-35 minutes
13x9x2 oblong--40-45 minutes
Cupcakes--15-20 minutes
Cake is done if center springs back when touched lightly with finger. Cool
cakes in pan on rack 10 minutes before removing from pan and frosting with
favorite frosting.
Recipe by: Unknown Cookbook
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #995 by L979 <L979@aol.com> on Jan 8, 1998
A Message from our Provider:
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. #C.S. Lewis”
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