Have you ever witnessed the taffy-making process? It is a very interesting process to watch for sure. After mixing sugar and other ingredients together, you are left with this massive blob of sweet goodness lying on the work table.
What can one possibly do with such a non-conformative mess? You can stretch it and pull it until it becomes a pliable consistency to be used for the sweet creation you had in mind. Whether by hand or through the use of a machine, eventually the blob will yield to the purpose and intended design, becoming something very useful and delicious to the one who created it.
My friend, you and I are the sweetness of God’s Creation. So much so, in the beginning, He said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” Genesis 1:26. There is something genuinely sweet and uniquely beautiful in the reality that the God of all creation wanted a special creature in His “likeness.”
Sadly, this beautiful, sweet creation has been tainted, corrupted, and susceptible to the dregs of sin this world produces. But that doesn’t stop the story. Thank God!
There is something more in the eyes and in the heart of the Father for this lowly being. He still sees the possibility of all they can become and with His holy hands, He begins His own process of pulling and stretching. And like the taffy maker, He’s watching, and working, and drawing hearts near for the end result – a sweetness we can never feel, experience, or imagine on this side of glory.
But as with the blob of candy turned treat, there must be a willingness to yield to the pulling and stretching work God wants to perform in you and through you.
The question is, will you truly let God have His way in your life. Oh, I know the sentiments we say, the songs we sing, and the prayers we pray – but when it’s all said and done, as uncomfortable and sometimes painful, will we yield our all I holy surrender to become those sweet creations?
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” James 1:22
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11
“There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.” Proverbs 19:21
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” 1 Peter 2:9
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well” Psalm 139:14, and it is truly a sweet thing.
Blessings~
Additional Reads:
“You Make a Difference to God”
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