God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
God’s love is active. He decided to love you when He could have justly condemned you. He’s involved. He’s merciful, not simply tolerant. He hates sin, yet pursues sinners by name. God is so committed to forgiving and changing you that He sent Jesus to die for you. He welcomes the poor in spirit with a shout and a feast. God is vastly patient and relentlessly persevering as He intrudes into your life. God’s love actively does you good. His love is full of blood, sweat, tears, and cries. He suffered for you. He fights for you, defending the afflicted. He fights with you pursuing you in powerful tenderness so that He can change you. He’s jealous, not detached. His sort of empathy and sympathy speaks out, with words of truth to set you free from sin and misery. He will discipline you as proof that He loves you. God Himself comes to live in you, pouring out His Holy Spirit in your heart, so that you will know Him. He puts out power and energy. God’s love has hate in it too: hatred for evil, whether done to you or by you. God’s love demands that you respond to it: by believing, trusting, obeying, giving thanks with a joyful heart, working out your salvation with fear, delighting in the Lord.
It is said that Satan once called to him the emissaries of hell and said he wanted to send one of them to earth to aid women and men in the ruination of their souls. He asked which one would want to go. One creature came forward and said, 'I will go.' Satan said, “If I send you, what will you tell the children of men?” He said, “I will tell the children of men that there is no heaven.” Satan said, “They will not believe you, for there is a bit of heaven in every human heart. In the end everyone knows that right and good must have the victory. You may not go.” Then another came forward, darker and fouler than the first. Satan said, “If I send you, what will you tell the children of men?” He said, “I will tell them there is no hell.' Satan looked at him and said, 'Oh, no; they will not believe you, for in every human heart there's a thing called conscience, an inner voice which testifies to the truth that not only will good be triumphant, but that evil will be defeated. You may not go.” Then one last creature came forward, this one from the darkest place of all. Satan said to him, “And if I send you, what will you say to women and men to aid them in the destruction of their souls?” He said, “I will tell them there is no hurry.” Satan said, “Go!”
Tub Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe lemon ready-to- spread frosting
20
Gumdrop Tulips
10
Green leaf-shaped grumdrops
20
Green toothpicks
20
sm
Assorted colored gumdrops
INSTRUCTIONS
GUMDROP TULIPS:
Heat oven to 350°. Generously grease and flour 2 round pans 8 or 9x 1 1/2
inches. Beat cake mix (dry), water, oil and eggs on low speed 30 seconds.
Beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Pour into pans. Bake 25 to 34 minutes or
until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool 10 minutes;
remove from pans. Cool completely on wire rack. Fill layers and frost cake
with frosting. Garnish with Gumdrop Tulips.
Gumdrop Tulips: Cut green gumdrops horizontally in half for leaves. Thread
1 leaf half onto middle of each toothpick. Snip bottom of each gumdrop 4
times to form tulip petals. Place on end of toothpick.
Yield: 12 to 16 servings Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com Source:
Betty Crocker.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Cindy Hartlin" <cjhartlin@email.msn.com>
on Apr 13, 1998
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