My wife is amazing. The things she creates in the kitchen are loved by many, especially at this time of year.
Today she is baking banana bread. But not for herself. As a gift for her co-workers.
Before she left work last week she notice to over-ripe bananas on the counter. "Those are NOT going to make it through the weekend," she thought. So she brought them home and let them get worse on OUR counter.
Yesterday morning she began making banana bread, which apparent requires bananas that have been rejected by many and left to be discarded at work. She is making banana bread out of them so she can take it to work as a delicious treat for them to enjoy.
Think about that for a moment. That act of taking something bad and making it good. Doesn't that sound like what God did for you and me? At one point in our lives we were ALL bad bananas. But God had mercy on us and turned us each into something special.
I watched my wife making her bread. She took a cup of flour out of the flour jar, measuring it just so. A little baking soda, sifted of course. a dash of salt and a stir. Then in went those ugly bananas. Soon to be made perfect in our oven.
What ingredients did God use to make you into the special treat that you are today? Perhaps it was a struggling relationship or an addiction of some kind. Maybe it was a hug from a stranger or a job that kept you away from your family.
God can change ALL that. He can take the bad and sad things in your life, mix them with love, and use them to create amazing things in His children.
My wife's banana bread is amazing! And so are you! Leave that ugly banana peel behind and allow God to mold you into who He wants you to be. You will be delicious!
"I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand." - Jeremiah 18:3-5
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