Instant chocolate pudding mix was
created to become something more
I beseech you therefore, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12: 1, 2
Every person born is created by God
to worship Him. But does that happen? No.
Imagine a nice golden pie crust as God. He is available and ready to receive everyone. Now pour us, the instant chocolate pudding mix into this
crust. Now there's just a pile of dark brown powder in the center of the crust. It has neither adhered to itself nor to the pie crust.
Doesn't do much for the appetite does it?
Can the powdered mix make itself into something more appealing, even though it's sitting inside the crust? No.
So, as this instant chocolate pudding mix, we are incapable of changing into something else. We’re just not going to make a pie of ourselves in the state we are
in. Dust, powder. Nothing. No one would want to eat pie crust filled with chocolate powder.
But, God wants us to be in Him. To do that, we have to change
into people who can worship Him. People who are in Him.
Imagine cold milk as the Holy Spirit. Now this chocolate powder
wants to be a pie in God, so God pours in the Holy Spirit. Instantly, there is a change! God whisks us around,
changing us. The instant pudding mix has now become something new. Now when in God, the pie crust, we are made a beautiful pie, sharable, sweet, and delicious.
To get to this new creation, we needed the Holy Spirit in us and then some whisking around to make us something we weren't before. But being beaten with a whisk
is painful, disgusting, and messy.
Nevertheless, it had to happen. It is the only way to get us into what God wants us to be. This takes some changes we may not like, but in the end, we are better than we were before.
Because God loves us, He saves us. Jesus saves us and God
immediately changes us. It is a fact of the Christian life.
Otherwise, we are not part of Him. Lack of God’s changing us is visible to
everyone. Other Christians know it and the world knows it. If you don’t change
under God’s love and instruction, the world knows you are not a Christian. You won’t fit in the pie. You're just loose powder that can be blown here and there without the Holy Spirit, the mixed in milk, and without any adherence to God, the pie crust.
Expiration dates on packages mean that stores have to throw
food away. Think of the millions of instant chocolate pudding boxes that get thrown into the
dumpsters, never made into a pie. They’re lost forever, burned in incinerators and thrown on dumps.
Those people never asked God to save them or forgive them
and they expired, their time was up and they are forever lost.
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Thank you.
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