46 - Cooking

'...take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them.' (Ezekiel 4:9)

One way or another, I'm sure most people are thankful for cooking. 

Perhaps you like the products. Perhaps you like the actual activity, the preparation of ingredients and the mouth-watering smell that comes from the oven. 

Or maybe you like both. I know I do! 

There's something satisfying, I think, in putting together a bunch of ingredients and see it turn into an edible substance (or not, depending on how good a cook you are.)

We can be thankful God gave us the skills and means to work out what ingredients, blended in a certain way, will produce the best results. We can be thankful for the fun that can be found in cooking, for the way we learn each time. Don't cook that for as long. Prepare your dishes beforehand. Stop picking as you cook!

But even if we're rubbish cooks, the kind that produces something vaguely resembling a cake, save for its strange black colour, we still have reason to be thankful. We can be thankful that there are better cooks than us in the world! 

Finally, here's something interesting to remember. In John 21, Jesus cooked fish for his disciples on a charcoal fire on the beach. 

The Son of God...cooked.

Now there's food for thought.