{Day 256}

Scanning the recipe I spotted this: softened butter.  My first thought was,  “oh, great”.  When baking I almost always forget to pull out the butter from where we keep the extra in the freezer.  Unfortunately the recipe said soften not melt.  So instead of heating it on the stove quickly I sliced the little brick of milky yellow and placed it in the sun.

And waited.

Because hard butter doesn’t mix well with the other ingredients.

Seems to be a picture for me.  There are areas in my life that are hard and need change.  God in his grace softens me gradually.  It happens as I sit with the Son.  In his light is where the darkness in my heart dissipates.  When I lose myself in Jesus and his glorious radiance I become perfectly soft and useable.  I can mix well with others after I’ve spent time alone with him.  It takes waiting on Jesus and his strength to accomplish in myself what I cannot.  Sometimes a little heat is just what I need.

1 John 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.