Pressure! Pressure is all around us. We awake everyday into a pressure driven world. Pressure at home. Pressure on our jobs. Pressure at school. Health issuses put alot of pressure on us. Relationships truly can put pressure on us. Our children can but alot of pressure on us. Pressure makes us make choices in our lives.
Genesis 1:2 states:" And the earth (you and I) was without form (shape-direction) and void (empty-hollow); and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Does this remind you of your life at one time or another. There was a time in my life when my life had no form and was empty and hollow. My life was just like a glob of my wife's biscuit dough.
Saturday is brunch day in the Breauxs' house. The one day I think my wife actually love getting up to cook. I think she uses me to test her recipes, and I'm a great lab rat! (smile) You should hear all the noise she makes as she gets the meal together. Pots clanging, mixer mixing,water running, alot of stuff going on in the kitchen!
One day I walked in the kitchen and on the counter was a glob of biscuit dough. It was just sitting there while my wife did other things. I looked at that dough and wondered how biscuits would come out of that mess! I watched as my wife took hold of the dough and begin to work on it. She squeezed and squeezed and squeezed it. She rolled it. She smashed it. She threw it down hard on the counter. She worked and worked on that dough, using all kinds of pressure to get the dough ready to become biscuits. She then took out the rolling pin and applied even more pressure to that dough, it wasn't a glob anymore. It wasn't without form or void. It was ready to become biscuits.
Sometimes it seems like our lives are a big glob of dough, with all the pressures of life bearing down on it from every angle. We walk around like everything is okay, yet in the inside there is a void that we can't fill. It's hard waking up and facing all the pressure but I want you to know this today. Pressure is just God working on your dough!
We are a work in progress! God uses pressure to mold us into the people He wants us to be. Not understanding God's pressure can make us make bad choices. Drugs, alcohol,adultery,bad financial decisions, the list goes on and on. Pressure, pressure, pressure! We must learn to accept pressure as a chance to grow. The truth is if we truly had faith in God there would be no pressure on us. We have to trust Him with our dough! He's trying to take us from glob to biscuit!
The brunch that day was great. The biscuits were light and tasty. My wife put alot of work and love into that dough and the results were amazing! If my wife can do amazing things with dough, think about what God can do with our dough!(lives) Just remember when pressure seems to be consuming your life: Don't worry, don't stress,it's just God working on your dough!
Father, help us to see your powerful hands molding us into the people you want us to be. Help us not to fight the pressure but to roll along with it. Help us to be your light and tasty biscuits in this sin sick world. In the mighty name of Jesus,AMEN
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