A packet of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I was baking these chocolate peanut butter rice krispy bars last night for a family get together today, and as I snuck a taste of the chocolate, I thought to myself, I wonder if I will ever love God as much as I love chocolate and peanut butter together. Because when I eat chocolate and peanut butter I close my eyes and slowly savor the taste as it melts on my tongue, it is pure bliss. But it bothered me last night, I just don’t love God like this, He is not pure bliss on my tongue, not yet anyway. God, will you get me there? And God speaks to me through An Invitation To Live Wonderstruck and tells me to look for his blessings and be ready to receive amazing things. The more I take my eyes off of my problems (which somehow don’t even seem to exist anymore), put my eyes on God, the more He is filling my life with joy and blessings. My cup overfloweth with His mercy and goodness.
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I have never liked Rice Krispy treats all that much, but those sound really, really good. Thanks for including the recipe link. Have everything but the Rice Krispys. Wonder how it would be with Rice Chex so the end product was chunkier and maybe adding salty peanuts for crunch of not too peanutty already. Or maybe pretzel chunks for a salty counterbalance to the sweet as well as chrunch.There goes that beta side breaking loose.
On a more serious note, I can relate to the angst behind that feeling. The passion people sometimes show in praise and worship pales next to what they will exhibit at a sporting event, even if in front of a television. I don’t judge them for that. I am not that much of a team sports fan, but I have my own indulgent passions and fall short in my spiritual life too.
We are not righteous enough to be spiritually on 24/7, but it does seem like we could devote a little more effort to it than we do. As you ovserved, we often are busy being concerned about things that God will ultimately purpose for good in our lives anyway. More worship, less worry.
I bet they would work with chex mix and pretzels. Hope you had a good Christmas!
Sis… just passing on Christmas greetings to y’all (thats plural y’all btw). As much as I get the professed thematic shift you declared, I also like that you haven’t stayed that course completely! :O
Thanks! Lol
Your post just made me hungry for bad things! naughty girl. Merry Christmas Sis.
Hey, if ya don’t stay fit than it’s over. Less lardcups and more treadmill. Be a good girl.
I think I’ve known you about a year now, I remember discovering TC around New Year’s last year. I hear Christ in you, I don’t know how, but I do. I look forward to meeting you in heaven someday.
The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you; The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious, kind, merciful, and giving favor to you; The Lord lift up His approving countenance upon you and give you peace, tranquility of heart and life continually.
Frau, do you mean that or are you just saying that as a way to guilt me so I stop hitting on you jokingly?
I’m not even baptised, Sis. And I’m a horrible sinner. Heaven is a long reach for me. If I were to die now, I doubt that’s where I will go.
The thief on the cross wasn’t baptized either and he went to heaven. Getting to heaven has never been about what you do, it’s not about being good enough, it’s about choosing God and giving your life to Him, once you do that He’ll take care of the details like helping you overcome sin and getting baptized. If God wants you baptized, you’re going to be baptized, He’s God. Getting baptized is an act of obedience we do to show God we love Him and want to follow Him completely, it’s not a gateway to Christianity.
After thinking on your comments some more, it seems to me like God is nudging you to get baptized, now I’m not telling you to go get baptized (although God does ask us to), I have no idea what the consequences would be for you to make your faith public. But I just wanted to let you know that if God is nudging you in that direction, you can trust Him, it’s not an easy path it’s hard to go His way, but He promises that He is working all things for good. It might not even be good for you, but He remembers and blesses those who put their trust in Him. If you trust Him, He will take care of all your needs. Don’t trust your own mind, trust in His promises.
Maybe God plans on using you to save your close ones and you need to trust Him before it can happen.
Do you really hear Christ in me? How?
Probably not, maybe it’s just hopeful thinking….i’m not psychic or anything, the important question is do YOU hear Christ in you?
Perhaps you are confusing delight and love.
While we live in This World it is difficult for an experience with God to trigger delight as strongly as experiences with delicious food. That is not sinful. We simply are beings who are currently physical much more than spiritual. Our “receptors” for chocolate work great, our “receptors” for God are still poorly developed (but growing!).
A different issue, as C. S. Lewis describes elegantly in his book _Perelandra_, is entitlement. “This moment eating chocolate is amazing!” is factual and not sinful. “I could eat chocolate more!” is temptation. “I should regularly eat this chocolate!” is sinful because of making plans without consulting God (James 4:13-16). “I deserve some of this chocolate daily!” is sinful because of entitlement (one of the seven deadly sins — the Latin word luxuria historically meant entitlement not lust).
You and I will delight in God as strongly as in delicious food in The World To Come. Until then there is not much we can do to hurry the process except pray (as you did!).
Until then, you and I should avoid making plans without God and avoid entitlement. And eat chocolate.
I’ll also add that the experience of taking delight in chocolate is pretty meaningless because it is so easy. We feel no accomplishment, relationship, or connection with something beyond ourselves.
If God created us with “receptors” for himself that naturally functioned as well as those we have for chocolate then our taking delight in him would be similarly watered-down.
Hi David, I love your insight and you’re right, we have freedom to enjoy chocolate
I guess the ideas that were going through my mind that night was how I wanted to enjoy God on the same level I enjoyed chocolate and I wasn’t there yet.
Bleh. Upon re-reading that “you and I” sounds creepy. But “we who are Believers” is also awkward. What is the proper phrase in your part of the world for use by people on the same journey but who travel seperately and will never meet?