When God Gives us Spiritual Cookies

We all have trials in our lives. Some seem small and trivial, some big, and others even BIGGER.

We can liken those trials and circumstances in our lives to a chocolate chip cookie.

Personally, I don't like to eat flour all by itself. I don't know of anyone who will eat it by the spoonful. Ick!  Flour is our big trial, it's definitely not fun to go through. We wouldn't willingly choose to go through it. I have never heard someone say, "Oh pick me, PICK ME!!! I haven't been through a good trial in a while!" No.one.ever.

As well as baking soda, raw eggs, salt, butter.... Each of these ingredients are not the tastiest things to eat by themselves. Just like those seemingly small trials in our lives. Small but they definitely don't taste the greatest in our mouths by themselves.

Then, we have my favorite part, the sugar and chocolate chips! These are the joys and triumphs of a Christian's life. The laughter, victories, growth, new converts...these are happy/joyful things and taste so delicious in our mouths! We could feast on these all the time!

Yet, when you put all those ingredients together, even all the seemingly gross tasting things, it is even better than all of them separately! The trials and struggles of our lives added to the joy and triumphs, God makes this awesome cookie out of it. No, those trials (flour, baking soda, raw eggs, salt, butter..) were not fun to go through and definitely not the best things to be tasting. Yet, you cannot have a yummy chocolate chip cookie without them.

God has a wonderful way of making all the hard times in our lives to something truly beautiful in the end. We just have to wait for Him to complete His perfect will in those situations.

~Hebrews 13:21~

"Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."

So, whether you have a heaping plate of flour today, or a bowl full of chocolate chips. Rejoice in the fact that God has an amazing chocolate chip cookie in the making.