The Sweetness Of God Changing Us, also known as, The Chocolate Pie Mix

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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Some Good Chocolate And/Or A Good Book

$3.99 is a good buy on a box of chocolates, or you can get several chocolate bars. You'd buy $3.99 worth of chocolate wouldn't you?

It will take less than a minute to eat one bar, or maybe a few days if you're conservative with your box of candy. But that $3.99 would be well spent on the enjoyment of that yummy sweetness, right?

Now $3.99 is also a sweet buy on a good book. You'd spent that much on a chocolate bar, so you'd also buy a good book for $3.99 wouldn't you. Especially as that book will last longer than a chocolate bar. 

"Some studies say a good dark chocolate is brain food."

Well, a good book is brain food!

Here's a good book that's not only brain food but heart food, soul food, and comfort food. Is chocolate your comfort food? Take a hefty bite from this book and see how it tastes and feels on your palate. You'll be pleased at the results.

What could you enjoy for $3.99?

Try this!

Squished! Why God Seemingly Destroys Our Fruit

 $3.99 @ Amazon.com

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Excerpt from Chapter IX. Old Things Become New

When God had purged the earth with water, the Bible tells us He remembered Noah. Not that God had forgotten, but the time had come to let Noah out of the ark. Noah’s family emerged to a new life, just as we who trust Jesus have new life in Him.

My church split and people went away angry. It felt as if we were floating uncontrolled through the storm. Our little church got littler and closed in. Bewildered and worried, I didn’t think we were in an ark for our own good, I thought the water was overwhelming us.

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God hadn't forgotten us either, and Squished! is about God doing a marvelous work through some painful pressure. God may have squished us hard but He planned all along to produce something new and wonderful from what looked like destroyed fruit.

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A born again Christian since 1985, Susan Estes lives with her husband Ivan, in Palmyra, Maine. Her service for God includes teaching Sunday School, hosting a Ladies home Bible study, and Guest Speaker. Publishing credits include several blogs, short stories, and magazine articles. Susan is a former newspaper journalist and columnist.

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