Never Out of Pancakes

Carolyn and I love having our kids and grand-kids over for

breakfast.  The usual breakfast fixings include scrambled eggs, bacon and pancakes.  Like most kids, my grand-kids devour the pancakes. 

They never question if we’ll have enough.  They never question the cost of the flour and eggs to make the pancakes.  They never worry about the electricity to heat the burners on the stove to cook the pancakes.  They just eat the pancakes. 

They trust that the pancakes will be there because that is what we have promised and that is what they expect.  They trust.

Let that sink in for a moment. 

TRUST!

What is missing here? 

Worry

          Fret

               Anxiety over not having enough

Our grand-kids don’t try to act especially nice so they get plenty of pancakes.  They just trust Papa and Nanny that there will be pancakes.

Oh to trust God in that way.  And we’re not really talking about pancakes.

We’re talking about a God who does what He says He will do and you can trust His word.

“Trust is our gift back to God” – so says Brennan Manning in Ruthless Trust.

Brennan also says this: 

“The splendor of the human heart which trusts that it is loved gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the sight of ten thousand butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom.” 

Remember that phrase in that song?

“Oh for grace to trust Him more.”

In case you ever wondered, God will never run out of pancakes, or anything else you need.

P Michael Biggs

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