Wednesday’s Devotion: Chopped or Champion?

Joshua 1:8  Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

I was watching Chopped on the Food Network last night.  Three chefs start out, facing three rounds – appetizer, main course and dessert.  For each round they are presented with a basket of mandatory ingredients for that round.  They then use other ingredients in the pantry and their imagination to create dishes for the judges.  At the end of each round a contestant is eliminated. The ingredients always seem like impossible combinations.  The appetizer round was catfish, tomatillos, rutabagas and marshmallows.  How like real life that is!  Life throws us curves. For one chef it was the rutabagas, for another the marshmallows.  But in the end with the help of all they know from their experience as chefs, they could actually combine those diverse and seemingly incompatible elements into something very tasty.  The more experience we have with God and God’s Word, the easier it is for us to remain confident in the face of our challenges and to pull things together into something good.   

Gracious God, help us to love your Word and to know how to use it to help us as we seek ways to combine all the elements that come into life for satisfaction and success. We ask in the name of you Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Have a great day!
Paige