Name: Cooking Dry Beans
Ingredients: None

So, what’s so bad about complaining? One – it reveals a thankless heart. How much easier is it to complain about the two things we don’t have as compared to being grateful for the thousands of things we do have? How can we follow the commands to rejoice always (Phil. 4:4) and be thankful for all things (1 Thes. 5:18) if there is a mere morsel of complaining in our hearts? Two – complaining reveals greater sins. Why do we complain? Because we are jealous that someone has what we want. Because we are selfish that things are not going our way. Because we are discontent and unsatisfied in Christ’s sufficiency. And three – complaining distrusts the sovereignty of God. Complaining implies that God made a mistake; that He not ruling the world with perfect justice and wisdom and quite frankly, we could do a better job. That He’s personally unloving and unkind to us. Can we rightly accept the fact that God has a good plan for our lives, or do we complain in believing ours is better and thus cast doubt on our sovereign Creator?

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Digest, Oct., Text, Reference, Fatfree	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

None

INSTRUCTIONS

This comes from Adele Davis' Let's Cook It Right:
Soaking legumes is unnecessary if the dry legume is quickly washed and
dropped into boiling water so slowly that boiling does not stop. As in
popping corn, the starch grains burst and break the outside covering of the
legume. After the covering and starch grains have burst, water is absorbed
rapidly and the cooking time is shortened. When all the beans, lentils, or
split peas have been put into the water, the heat should be lowered
immediately to prevent the protein from becoming tough. A simmering
temperature should then be maintained until the beans are tender.
It works for me; I've found cooking times to be *significantly* reduced.
Posted by "Jim Bakker" <jimb@netcom.com> to the Fatfree Digest [Volume 11
Issue 10], Oct. 10, 1994. FATFREE Recipe collections copyrighted by
Michelle Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by Sue Smith,
S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/fatfreex.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed! #A.J. Gossip”

The reasons why [legalism] is so devastating are: 1. It ignores or underestimates the role of inner attitude and motivation. 2. It focuses upon self-effort rather than on divine enablement. 3. It encourages pride rather than humble dependence upon God. 4. It tends to “use” the Scriptures to reinforce our own preconceived ideas and preferences. 5. It tends to conceive of our acceptance with God as performance oriented. 6. It arouses the flesh and incites us to sin, rather than the avoidance of sin. 7. It tends to impose one's personal convictions on others, and to condemn them if they fail to live up to our rules. Legalism cannot save you, my friend, and neither can it sanctify. Praise God!

Robert Deffinbaugh