Taste and Be

I am not known for culinary prowess, but even I was pleased with this effort. I had items in the fridge that needed using up: potatoes, carrots, half an onion, broccoli, sausages and some leftover Stilton. I left it all to stew in a pan and returned hours later. The flavour was strong but tasty, and it lasted for three meals. Okay, so this is not groundbreaking stuff or some exotic new recipe which the housewives of East Lancashire will be queuing up to replicate, but there was something wonderfully winsome about using up leftovers and making something delicious from them.

While some people come to Christ while still in their twenties, others turn to Him later in life, when the hairs are grey and the bones rather stiff. Often, the best parts of our lives we squander in worldly pursuits, and that remaining portion which we surrender to His service seems life the scraps and the crumbs. Yet the Lord takes what is left and makes it flavoursome, aromatic and delicious. He can take those parts which have not been spent and detect and confer a value and utility which even we cannot see. The Bible describes God as a shepherd, warrior, farmer, husband and king, but never, I think, as a chef or cook. Yet He is, surely, a Master Chef, because He transforms raw leftovers into a veritable feast of delight.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Psalm 34:8

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