My wife is becoming pretty famous around here for her carrot cake (she also makes an incredible chocolate cake we all love). It’s really yummy. I usually help her with grating the carrots, chopping the pecans, opening cans, and making sure we include everything on the list of ingredients, etc. We work well together which is a whole other email. I’m also one of the cake frosting testers. Yeah, that’s a blessing. ☺
We’ve found that, if we forget an ingredient (or add too much of something), we can tell and the cake is not at its best when we do accidentally omit something even though it may be a small part of the whole cake. No matter how insignificant it may seem, it takes all of the cake ingredients working together to pull of a great-tasting carrot cake.
I hope I can make this somewhat clear because the Lord really blessed me with this thought about the word “together.”
Wow. I was saying my verses (The ones listed on the ChoosingJesusEveryDay.com site) the other night when the Lord emphasized the word “together” in Romans 8:28. It really hit me when He highlighted that word for me. He was saying that everything was working together for my good. All of it was necessary for the recipe He was working on in my life. All of it was part of something beautiful He was working on. I wasn’t to have two lists of things, one with things on it I didn’t like (a difficult situation, an odd relationship; old, dirty carpet; relentless health issues) and one with things on it I approved of and felt better about. No, all of it was working “together” to accomplish what He wanted to bring about in my life. It was all “good” and important. Nothing was to be omitted. And in His time, – Yes, even “time” was part of the “together” – He would show me why He needed everything together in order to accomplish what He began in my life.
I don’t need to wring my hands and rack my brain with how He’s going to do it, with how He’s going to use something, with how He’s going to make it all work together for good. I just get to let Him be God and sit back and enjoy together. Isn’t that a blessing? That insight really made me happy and brought me comfort. I could rest in “together.” I could rest in God.
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:6
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:5
God bless,
Mark