Feeling a little homesick this week, I decided to bake my mom's amazing pound cake. I thought the combination of butter, sugar and vanilla would comfort me. I mixed all of the ingredients and poured them in the cake pan. Putting the cake in the oven, I turned on the oven light so I could watch my confectionary masterpiece rise as it baked. About an hour into baking, I noticed the pound cake looked, well, pounded. It wasn't rising up all golden brown and fluffy. I waited another 25 min. for the cake to finish baking to confirm the heartbreaking truth: my pound cake was a total disaster.
Disappointed and hungry, I called my mom to figure out what I'd done wrong. I tearfully rehashed my steps on the phone, how I'd beaten the eggs in one at a time, sifted the flour, and used Splenda to even make the pound cake somewhat healthy. "That's the problem right there," Mom stopped me. "You can't use Splenda, you gotta use the real thing-real sugar. It may give it more calories, but it's worth it."
How many times in our own lives do we try to substitute things for God? We put other priorities-family, money or our jobs, above Him, only to fall flat-like my poor pound cake. There's no substitute for the real thing-Jesus Christ and a relationship with Him. It may take effort on our part, but it's worth it.
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2 comments:
I love your post! What an eye opener...so true! Love and miss you!
P.S. I hope your mom sends you a pound cake! :)
I'm so glad you have a blog!! AHAHAHA i adding you on my list of blogs i love...so you have a lot to live up to :)
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