Corona Devo 1367

When you have a grandiose meal like Thanksgiving--the variety, types, and flavors of food that day are amazing.  Top-notch and fresh, and on grand display for the big day.  Bountiful, beautiful, and delicious.

But, then in just 24 hours' time, (let alone a few days or a week)...they are all just leftovers.  Somehow the vibrancy of veggies like peas and carrots and corn seem to dull into a muted-version of their Thanksgiving-selves.  Everything seems grayish, like the color of gravy.  Once fantastic food becomes ho-hum, and my kids can be heard saying, "Leftovers again, Mom?"

But I found one way to resurrect all of the Thanksgiving-day favorite foods in a way that my whole troop enjoys as much as the first time around: turkey pot pie.  

Apparently, you can put new (delicious!) life back into something that was once great but has lost its luster.  In this (turkey pot pie) case, that process involves a buttery crust, lots of gravy, and anything you (still) have leftover from the Thanksgiving table, including (but not limited to!): turkey, peas, carrots, celery, green beans, corn, mushrooms...you name it.  All of that can have new life when repurposed into a turkey pot pie.  

As I pulled a couple beauties out of the oven for my family, I couldn't help but see the similarities between these turkey pot pies and us.

In any number of ways, we have been the multi-faceted, bright, well-represented "Thanksgiving meal":  

  • Possibly--before we came to know God, we were doing life on our own, and it was going rather swimmingly, or so we thought.  Money, popularity, achievements, status....  Everything the world says that we need to be happy...until one day we realized that we weren't happy.  We weren't fulfilled.  We weren't living a meaningful life--because we weren't knowing and serving God. 
  • Or, perhaps, we were.  We WERE living really well by God's standards, and we were in the "spiritual zone".  Life was really good...until it wasn't.  Hardship came, or sin enticed us, or pride enveloped us...and we fell away from Jesus and from God's good plan for us.
  • Or, perhaps we have our side-dish to our story.  Something (sin) hit, and for whatever reason, our life became like leftovers.  Somehow the vibrancy that we once knew in Christ seemed to dull.  We became a grayer-version of our once-fantastic spiritual selves. 

But, HEY!  It's not time to throw out the leftovers in the fridge yet!  God's not done with us.  He resurrects the good in us because He IS the good in us.  If we will allow Jesus to work and re-work in our lives, He has a delicious outcome in store.  

God will tell us in the Bible that apparently, you can put new (delicious!) life back into something that was once great but has lost its luster.

God's not done with us yet.

...being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ...  ~Philippians 1:6

Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters... (18) “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. (19) Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.  ~Isaiah 43:16, 18-19 


There is only One who can resurrect us from our sin, our slumps, our ho-hum-ness: and it is God.  Only He can breathe new life back into us, and He is willing and able and excited to do just that today.

  • So the Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion.  For the Lord is a faithful God.  Blessed are those who wait for his help.  ~Isaiah 30:18
  • Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand... and Your right hand will save me.  (8) The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.  ~Psalm 138:7-8

 Apparently, you can put new life back into something that has lost it's luster, and our Lord specializes in doing just that.  In this case, that process involves us repenting and asking God in (or back in) to our hearts and lives.

And from there, our Father gives meaning to our mess.  He creates clean from our soiled.  You name it--all of that can have new life when we are repurposed by original Creator.

Today is a new day for us in Christ.  Bountiful, beautiful, and delicious.


Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com 

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