The Bread That Won't Bake
When I'm baking, there are only so many things that are under my control. I can buy the ingredients. I can find my perfect recipe. I can assemble everything perfectly and place them in my oven. But once it's in the oven, it's no longer under my power. I, physically, can not make the bread or muffins or cake actually bake and become its final product. My job now is to watch and wait and trust.
Usually it works out beautifully. The oven does its job. The ingredients react and know just what to do to turn the batter or dough into a delicious tasty treat.
But what could be done if it doesn't? What can I do if the batter refuses to bake or the bread refuses to rise? (If it could make such decisions.) There's nothing wrong with the oven. To my knowledge, I followed the recipe just right. And yet there I stand waiting and watching, waiting and watching, waiting and watching...with NO progress.
Living with unresolved issues in life can feel about the same way. Though you wait and watch and hope for what feels like an endless amount of time, nothing changes. The batter remains a batter. The bread refuses to bake. What frustration! How hard it is to stand there and watch things NOT change. It's beyond your own reasoning why they won't.
Unresolved. Unresolved. Unresolved! For Pete's sake, just bake already and let's get on with it!
But when it doesn't. When it won't. When it refuses. What is there left for you to do?
Only one thing.
Take off your oven mitts and hand them over to the Baker. It's the only solution. If you don't, you may end up waiting your whole life away in front of that oven.
Usually it works out beautifully. The oven does its job. The ingredients react and know just what to do to turn the batter or dough into a delicious tasty treat.
But what could be done if it doesn't? What can I do if the batter refuses to bake or the bread refuses to rise? (If it could make such decisions.) There's nothing wrong with the oven. To my knowledge, I followed the recipe just right. And yet there I stand waiting and watching, waiting and watching, waiting and watching...with NO progress.
Living with unresolved issues in life can feel about the same way. Though you wait and watch and hope for what feels like an endless amount of time, nothing changes. The batter remains a batter. The bread refuses to bake. What frustration! How hard it is to stand there and watch things NOT change. It's beyond your own reasoning why they won't.
- Why won't that friend call you back and just hear you out?
- Why won't the people you love just agree to disagree and get back to being family again?
- Why won't your authorities just humble themselves and seek forgiveness and resolution? Don't they know that there are more people than just themselves that are being left hanging in the balance of this unresolved issue between them?
Unresolved. Unresolved. Unresolved! For Pete's sake, just bake already and let's get on with it!
But when it doesn't. When it won't. When it refuses. What is there left for you to do?
Only one thing.
Take off your oven mitts and hand them over to the Baker. It's the only solution. If you don't, you may end up waiting your whole life away in front of that oven.
Let God fill your post and watch over it. Let Him handle it. Only He can fix what is wrong. Only He knows what to do with the dough. Only He can make the batter bake. Walk away and let Him do what only He can do.
Ya never know, the next time you take a peek in the oven, you just might see things changing!
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