My thermos is filled with Door County Apple Cobbler Coffee and we are headed out to hunt some ducks today.
Thanksgiving is approaching quickly. I needed to do some grocery shopping for our dinner on Thursday. Rene thought it would be nice to serve the traditional green bean casserole with the rest of the Thanksgiving traditional things like turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. So when I went to the store to pick up the French Fried Onions there wasn't much left on the shelf to choose from. As a matter of fact they were out. I thought about making the dish and just not having the onions on top or just mixing in raw onions and letting them cook with the soup and bean mixture. But then it would be close, but not the real dish. I shopped some more and two stops later I found what I needed and we are set. As close as it would be without all the perfect ingredients, it would still be an imitation and just would not suffice.
For some people church attendance is what they feel makes them a Christian. Others trust in doing good things to earn their salvation from sin. Others trust in rituals to save them. But there is no substitute for the real ingredient "Jesus" and a relationship by faith in Him for salvation.
Ephesians 2:8-9New Living Translation (NLT)
8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Romans 5:6-8New King James Version (NKJV)
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
It's time for someone reading this today to have a heart check up. Are you living a real faith or an imitation?
Food for thought!
Marty
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