Recipe For Life
Nancy Shaw Reed

A life without Christ is a recipe for emptiness and disaster.  The recipe for life is given to us in The Bible.  It consists of God’s Forgiveness, His Grace, and His Mercy.  The ingredient for real life, eternal life, is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  

Recipe For Life

Take a half-cup of sorrow and pour it right on in,
Then mix with it sixteen ounces of ordinary sin.
Carefully measure out two tablespoons of tears,
Just for taste, throw in a couple dashes of fear.
Mix it all together and you have the dough, with which we start,
Get ready now the next ingredients are the very best part.
Throw in a pound of grace, for it removes the bitterness of the sin,
Interestingly enough, it turns the whole mixture white within.
Now add two cups of mercy and a whole pound of love,
Remember those two are stored in the cupboard up above.

Now let the dough rest in the mercy and grace,

It will rise after three days, now filling up the place.

The sin, tears, and sorrow now seem to disappear,

In fact, there is just a hint of the taste of the fear.

The taste of the grace is amazing, you will see,

The mercy is so filling after just bites two or three.

The grace and mercy together form a filling of peace,

The taste of which you’ll wish would never cease.

Now the recipe is best shared with others everyday,

It’s to be savored with a warm cup of joy all along the way.

Suggested Scriptures:  2 Corinthians 12:9,
Matthew 25:34-40, Psalm 16:11

 Prayer:  Lord, may I never take for granted the incredible Mercy and Grace that
You have shown me in my life.  Each day, may I be changed a little more into
the person that You would have me to be.

Amen.