Rye And Lentil Pilaf – We Love God!

If I do not believe in my heart these awful truths [how God saved me from hell] – believe them so that they are real in my feelings – then the blessed love of God in Christ will scarcely shine at all. The sweetness of the air of redemption will be hardly detectable. The infinite marvel of my new life will be commonplace. The wonder that to me, a child of hell, all things are given for an inheritance will not strike me speechless with trembling humility and lowly gratitude. The whole affair of salvation will seem ho-hum, and my entrance into paradise will seem as a matter of course. When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news. The intensity of joy is blunted and the heart-spring of love is dried up.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Meats	Jewish	Crockpot, Grains, Legumes, Low-fat	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Rye
1/2	c	Lentils
1		Onion, minced
1/2	c	Carrot, diced
1/2	c	Celery, diced
1/4	t	Thyme
1/4	t	Sage
3	c	Chicken broth
		Salt and pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Soak rye at least 4 hours.  Drain and combine with remaining ings.
Cook on low 8-10 hours. Recipe By     : Annice's files  Posted to
JEWISH-FOOD digest V96 #64  Date:         Sun, 27 Oct 96 10:45:10 +0200
From: Annice Grinberg <VSANNICE@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>  NOTES : You
can substitute wheat berries or barley for the rye.  Barley does not
need soaking.

A Message from our Provider:

“Where love is, God is. #Henry Drummond”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 107 Calories From Fat: 17 Total Fat: 1.8g Cholesterol: 14.9mg Sodium: 587mg Potassium: 419.3mg Carbohydrates: 10.3g Fiber: 3.1g Sugar: 3.2g Protein: 11.9g

Since God made man like Himself, man’s dominion over the world and his filling the world is a display-an imaging forth-of God. God's aim, therefore, was that man would so act that he mirror forth God, who has ultimate dominion. Man is given the exalted status of image-bearer not so he would become arrogant and autonomous (as he tried to do in the fall), but so he would reflect the glory of His Maker whose image he bears. God's purpose in creation, therefore, was to fill the earth with his own glory. This is made clear, for example, in Numbers 14:21, where the Lord says, “All the earth shall be full of the glory of the Lord,” and in Isaiah 43:7, where the Lord refers to his people as those “whom I created for my glory.”

John Piper