Toast

Toast

Early morning cheese toast on a young man’s plate, crust disregarded, and melted cheesy yumminess, eaten first. Please eat your toast, from Mom, results in a boyish frown and words uttered, I do not like the brown parts. Mom forgotten, smiles at pajama clad young man’s head bowed to a video game, brown crust still untouched.

Christ reveals life in toast. We want to trim the hard and live in the soft goodness and melted bliss. It’s the crust that brings us to the blessing.  The crust is the hard baked shell that protects the tender softness as the heat turns dough into bread.

It was, after all,   the tireless pursuit from King Saul that baked a crust of leadership and warrior into King David. The harshness of bitter divorce baked around the woman at the well that led her to thirst for Savior conversation. The brutality of the cross that crusted a third day resurrection.

Savior, the baked crust is where you first form endurance and shaping to the goodness inside.

No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.
 For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,
 height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Romans 8: 37-39

Enjoy your morning coffee with a piece of toast this morning. Don’t disregard the crust, it after all, is where you find the greatest health benefits.

I also recommend you read the 8^th chapter of Romans. It is filled with triumph over evil.

Father, thank you for the hard times in life that bake a shell of knowledge and strength around us. For turning stories of hardship into testimonies of hope for those in need. Amen