The Process

Most women I know like quick and easy recipes. Why? Because we are so ... on the go! I don’t cook much anymore but when do labor in the kitchen, I don’t want it to be over one specific dish. Without even reading a recipe, I can tell if it's going to be too much trouble – there will be too many words!

 

God does His perfect work ... slowly. There is no quick and easy, "on the go" method to His Best "us." Anne Keary writes, "I believe that if we could only see beforehand what it is that our heavenly Father means us to be -- the soul beauty and perfection and glory, the glorious and lovely spiritual body that this soul is to dwell in through all eternity, -- if we could have a glimpse of this, we should not grudge all the trouble and pains He is taking with us now, to bring us up to that ideal, which is His thought of us." Well, this certainly casts a different light on all the whining and bad attitudes we embrace. Second Peter 3:8 says, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Isn’t it our prayer that we will have His Best in our lives? Then why do we grumble along the way? Romans 8:25 asks, "If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it?" Just as a master chef is meticulous and patient with his tasteful entree, so The Master Chef is with His work of perfection in us. May we resolve to a ... slow bake!