Gods Amazing Marvels

By Cindy H Benedict

Does the Lord speak to you? He has spoken to me many times, but in the summer of 2005 He spoke to me while I was making gravy! Weird, eh?  I think so too, but He was talking, so I was listening.   

I was working on making dinner one night in the kitchen at Indian Lake Christian Service Camp in Darlington, Md. I had just finished melting the butter for the gravy and was adding the flour…to make the roux which is the basis for gravy.  

And the Lord says, “blended – together, yet separate.”  

Ok, so I wrote it down.

This occurs when someone introduces us to Jesus, and we start our journey with Him.

Now if you have ever been in the kitchen up at camp you know that the stove is higher than your stove at home.  So with the height of the stove and the size of the pots at camp, and me being short…  Well, I always cooked using a two step stool.   That day there was a lot of ups and downs on that step stool as I wrote down what the Lord was saying! 

Anyway, as I continue, the flour starts to get brown and rises to the top.  It looks…crusty. 

The Lord says, “Crusty… with rebellion”  

We are realizing how much we need to change, how much we fight against the changes occurring in our lives. 

When making gravy, here is where you have to stir continually or the flour will burn. Then the changes start happening. 

There is a point when the two original ingredients start to blend together.  

That was when the Lord said, “Gradual surrender .”  And then the mix starts boiling.  

The Lord says, “Bubbling with anticipation!”  

The blending of the two becoming one is amazing to watch. You no longer have flour and butter. If you taste them together before you start cooking, it tastes yuck.  But once the surrender occurs, you have something besides butter and flour.  You have a roux…the basis for gravy.  

The Lord continued to speak to me as I was stirring the pot.  

“Through the fire of change; conforming to a new identity.”

Left alone (without the stirring part) it would burn up in the fire and be of no use.”

I love making gravy with the Lord!  I know this sounds odd.  It sounds odd to me.  I just know that if you would open up your heart to hear from Him, He will speak.  That year… it was all about the gravy.  

As we surrender our lives to Christ, we become one.  Thank you, Father, for your gift of Jesus.  As we take these emblems may we surrender our lives to You so that we become new creations in Christ, ready to do your will.