God bless,

     A little girl says to her mommy “I want chocolate cake”. The mom says “well honey, I have to see what we have in the pantry, she could have gone the easy route and went out to buy one, but she wanted to spend quality time with her daughter and teach her the value of making it herself, so she brought out the sugar. The little girl excitedly said yeah chocolate cake! But the mom said no honey it’s just the sugar, we will get the other ingredients tomorrow. The next day at the market the mom grabbed a box of eggs and flower, but they were out of chocolate for baking and the chocolate fudge, so the little girl said excitedly “yeah chocolate cake”, but the mom said no honey it’s only the eggs and flower we still need the chocolate to make the cake.  The next day the mom drives a little further to a bigger market and buys the chocolate and the little girl says “yeah chocolate cake”, but the mother patiently said “no honey these are just the ingredients, but now we have all we need, let’s go home and make our chocolate cake!”

      Together mother and daughter applied every last ingredient and mixed them all together, so the little girl said “yeah chocolate cake”. The mother patiently said “honey we are almost there, just one more step to get your chocolate cake, be patient!” And the mother gracefully placed the mix in a baking pan and turned up the oven and together they waited. The mother at this point was even more excited to take out the cake from the oven and give it to her daughter who so anxiously waited to receive it. And as in previous days the little girl shouted excitedly “Yeah chocolate cake!” and the mother said “yes honey come and eat”.

      You are not made up of one ingredient, but of many (fruits of the spirit –Ephesians 4:1-6)and it may take several days or years to find the richness of God in you, but know that the day you became His child those ingredients became rightfully yours as His heir and Co-heir with Jesus Christ. Those isolated ingredients are not the entire you (your past days, months, years, sins are not the only you) but meshed together in Christ and with his secret ingredients- the fruits of the spirit, you will then be put into His oven (Refiners Fire) of love, He will finish the work in you and it will be glorious and then your eyes will see and reap of your reward here in the land of the living, you will be made whole, His Finished and crafted workmanship (THE FINISHED CHOCOLATE CAKE! )

In His service, Pastor Elizabeth Perez