Applesauce Bullion
Well I am sure that I have peeked your curiosity! I have never heard of the product Applesauce Bullion, at least not until recently! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Well of course it got me to thinking when this funny turn of events happened. Things are not always as they seem. You have heard of that I am sure. But we do not often practice seeing things from the “others” point of view. Furthermore, things are not always the way we think they should be according to God! Now that is getting touchy isn’t it! If it does not make sense to us, then surely it is not God’s will right??!!
God has said: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9
One morning I was in the kitchen making my family’s favorite homemade soup! Creamy, Yummy Potato Soup with fresh bread on a cold day is the best!! So I asked my oldest son to go get me the main ingredient that makes it so yummy out of the freezer. Fresh, thick, strong “yard bird” broth is what really makes a terrific soup---Fantastic! So I always try to keep some on hand from when I cook up chicken in the crock pot. To make it simple I just put it into freezer containers and freeze it. It is the right amount too.
So on this morning after my son brought me the container I just wet the bottom and it slips right out. I put the pot on low and let it melt as I added the chopped potatoes and carrots. I have done this so much I could do it in my sleep! But on this morning as I was adding about 5 more cut up potatoes, something was not right. I was not hearing the right sound. Which is not sound at all as the broth melts. Instead I was hearing a sizzling sound. So I looked into the pot. There was a faint sweet smell. There was a pile high of cut potatoes sitting in half melted applesauce!!! I screamed, turned off the stove and just stared. Could this really be applesauce? Yep one lick and sure enough---applesauce. Well now what am I gonna do?
I took out the remaining frozen applesauce and put it in a bowl in the refrigerator, then I put all the potatoes in a strainer and rinsed them well, cleaned the pot, and started over! I thought I had used up all the applesauce a long time ago! And since I don’t label my freezer containers (I only use them for broth, and I can tell the beef broth from the chicken broth by color!) I look for what the outside looks like. But I did not think about the applesauce!! We had made applesauce way back in the summer. And since the spare freezer is in the basement workshop, I do not often go down there. The boys had told me we were out of applesauce months ago.
What a lesson! It looked like broth on the outside, it slid out like broth, but it was not broth!! Many times in the Bible we have seen this kind of “mistaken identity” My will over God’s?? Take for example the story written in I Samuel 16:1-13. God tells Samuel to go anoint the new king. After looking at all Jesse’s sons (at least the most promising ones). The ones that Samuel and Jesse thought God would choose was not God’s choice at all. We look on the outside and God looks on the inside. 1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
Just like the mistake I made with the applesauce, we can make in our thoughts of other people, in our thoughts of God’s will in our lives. And whether or not we will be obedient to ideas and scriptures we do not understand etc. I challenge you to renew your mind in God’s Word. Get to know Him better and you will begin to think more heavenly minded.
I was able to clean up my “mistaken identity” with the applesauce bullion! But many times in our lives it is not so easy to “clean up” thoughtless bullion! Think about it!
Well I am sure that I have peeked your curiosity! I have never heard of the product Applesauce Bullion, at least not until recently! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Well of course it got me to thinking when this funny turn of events happened. Things are not always as they seem. You have heard of that I am sure. But we do not often practice seeing things from the “others” point of view. Furthermore, things are not always the way we think they should be according to God! Now that is getting touchy isn’t it! If it does not make sense to us, then surely it is not God’s will right??!!
God has said: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9
One morning I was in the kitchen making my family’s favorite homemade soup! Creamy, Yummy Potato Soup with fresh bread on a cold day is the best!! So I asked my oldest son to go get me the main ingredient that makes it so yummy out of the freezer. Fresh, thick, strong “yard bird” broth is what really makes a terrific soup---Fantastic! So I always try to keep some on hand from when I cook up chicken in the crock pot. To make it simple I just put it into freezer containers and freeze it. It is the right amount too.
So on this morning after my son brought me the container I just wet the bottom and it slips right out. I put the pot on low and let it melt as I added the chopped potatoes and carrots. I have done this so much I could do it in my sleep! But on this morning as I was adding about 5 more cut up potatoes, something was not right. I was not hearing the right sound. Which is not sound at all as the broth melts. Instead I was hearing a sizzling sound. So I looked into the pot. There was a faint sweet smell. There was a pile high of cut potatoes sitting in half melted applesauce!!! I screamed, turned off the stove and just stared. Could this really be applesauce? Yep one lick and sure enough---applesauce. Well now what am I gonna do?
I took out the remaining frozen applesauce and put it in a bowl in the refrigerator, then I put all the potatoes in a strainer and rinsed them well, cleaned the pot, and started over! I thought I had used up all the applesauce a long time ago! And since I don’t label my freezer containers (I only use them for broth, and I can tell the beef broth from the chicken broth by color!) I look for what the outside looks like. But I did not think about the applesauce!! We had made applesauce way back in the summer. And since the spare freezer is in the basement workshop, I do not often go down there. The boys had told me we were out of applesauce months ago.
What a lesson! It looked like broth on the outside, it slid out like broth, but it was not broth!! Many times in the Bible we have seen this kind of “mistaken identity” My will over God’s?? Take for example the story written in I Samuel 16:1-13. God tells Samuel to go anoint the new king. After looking at all Jesse’s sons (at least the most promising ones). The ones that Samuel and Jesse thought God would choose was not God’s choice at all. We look on the outside and God looks on the inside. 1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
Just like the mistake I made with the applesauce, we can make in our thoughts of other people, in our thoughts of God’s will in our lives. And whether or not we will be obedient to ideas and scriptures we do not understand etc. I challenge you to renew your mind in God’s Word. Get to know Him better and you will begin to think more heavenly minded.
I was able to clean up my “mistaken identity” with the applesauce bullion! But many times in our lives it is not so easy to “clean up” thoughtless bullion! Think about it!
