God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
“Fixing our eyes on Jesus” is perhaps the most important lesson in this athletic metaphor. Any runner in the Greek stadium who took his eyes off the goal and either looked at the crowds, or his competitors, would lose valuable time and concentration. So it is in the Christian life. When we get our eyes off the Lord, and onto others, we are in danger of getting sidetracked spiritually.
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – is going to bring satisfaction to their aching hearts besides God. This conviction breeds a people who passionately long for God on Sunday morning. They are not confused about why they are here. They do not see songs and prayers and sermons as mere traditions or mere duties. They see them as means of getting to God or God getting to them for more of His fullness.
Combine sugars, baking soda, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir in eggs. Cut butter
into small pieces and work into mixture. Add flour, a cup at a time, and
mix well. Knead in almonds. Gather dough into ball and divide into five
equal pieces. Roll each piece into a cylinder. If you wish, roll each
cylinder in colored sugar. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat oven to 350. Cut each log into 1/4" slices. Bake on ungreased
cookie sheet for 8 minutes. "This recipe is a tradition in my husband's
Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army."
Recipe by Sandra Silfven, Detroin News food editor. Source: _Gifts from the
Christmas Kitchen_, sent by BEE to Sylvia Steiger (THE.STEIGERS on GEnie,
71511,2253 on CI$) for the November 1992 cookbook swap
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