But getting back on topic, the last episode we watched the chefs were told to go back to their roots and cook a dish that honored their heritage. I'll try to do this without any worse spoilers than no one picked the licorice basket. The chef who fell short had difficulty because they (trying to avoid he or she just in case you, Dear Reader, are like me and sometimes watch shows after they air and hate to read spoilers,,,,,anyway, they) didn't really know their heritage. The chef knew just enough to try to incorporate some things in the dish but not enough to really bring honor to the dish and make it good. One of the judges commented that they would have been better to simply leave that side of their lineage out of the dish because it came out confused as the chef was. Leah and I were discussing our heritage, what we would do to honor it, etc. and I said, you can't honor what you don't know.
An that Dear Reader is the point of this Moment and why I brought up Top Chef. The contestant chef truly wished to honor their heritage and wanted to do well, but since they didn't know it, they moved on to Last Chance Kitchen. And in so doing, they gave an excellent object lesson. We who have been given freedom and found a life worth living want tour lives to be a demonstration of God's power, love and way of life. We want to be a light of love and an instrument of service to others that brings honor and glory to Daddy. But if we don't really get to know Daddy well, we can't honor Him. You can't honor what you don't know.
If we only know a little about the One who saved us, then we can say we believe in Him, but what we do will often be more confused than honoring I know people that I respect and think are pretty awesome, but I would dearly hate to be asked to speak in their honor because I don't know them well enough to do them justice. But I believe I could speak about my wife in a way that honors her, because I know her well. And I want my life to bring as much honor to God as possible. The key to that is not in learning rules and rites and doing everything a certain way. It's not in never making a mistake or falling short. The way to bring honor to Him with my life is to really get close to Him and get to know Him in such a way that our association rubs off on me and shows in how I live and act and am.
Let us draw near to the Daddy who loves us and get to know Him so well that knowing Him influences our very being. Then the confusion of what He would or wouldn't want or approve of falls away, and our efforts to bring Him glory are not muddled and confused.
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