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Why Jesus Wasn’t a Baker
My husband Rich loves to build things. It may be in his blood, as his grandfather was a master carpenter. Genetically driven or not, working in his shop satisfies him. It’s fun for me, too, to watch as a pile of lumber takes shape as a doghouse, or a bookshelf, or a table. Sometimes, like a scrub nurse, I assist, handing Rich the tool he needs at a given moment.
One Saturday not long ago he spent the day sawing, sanding, driving screws and making things plumb. Meanwhile I was in my shop, the kitchen, baking a cake.
Wood, as a medium, is different from flour, sugar, and eggs. With wood, if the joint didn’t come together just as you’d hoped, you can undrive the screws and try again. Your chances to do it again, a little better, a little truer than before, are practically limitless. You can even renew a building, or a piece of furniture, by cutting out the old wood and replacing it with new.
Baking is less forgiving. If your cake recipe calls for two eggs and you add three eggs, You can’t unmix the batter, remove one egg, and try again. You have to toss the mess out and begin anew or take your chances with an extra egg in the cake. If your cake cracks, you can’t patch in a fresh piece of cake to fix it (though frosting can serve as spackle, in a jam).
I was thinking about this difference on that Saturday, as Rich buzzed through his project in the garage, sawdust dancing in sunbeams, and I wielded my Kitchenaid mixer in the kitchen, creating small clouds of cocoa dust. Wood gives you second chances. Cakes don’t.
Wood can be renewed. Cakes can’t.
5 And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new. ” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
6 Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.
7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. Revelation 21:5-7 (NASB)
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