Adding a Little to Make Big Difference

She had an easy bake oven. We were well on our way to becoming mature and responsible young women. Well, OK maybe not women but at least we could make cookies on our own: chocolate chip cookies. We mixed the butter and the brown & the white sugars together and then hit our first snag already. Vanilla. Pulling the brown bottle with a red label out of the cabinet we realized it was empty. What could we do?

“I don’t know what it does to the cookies but maybe we can substitute something else in its place.”

Rummaging through the cabinet we found another bottle that was the same size, color and shape as the vanilla. It had the same kind of label on it, same red lid and even said “extract” too. As a matter of fact, there was almost no difference between the two bottles except one word: lemon, not vanilla. How could it hurt? Clearly we needed to add something to finish making these cookies; this bottle was just the ticket.

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At that stage in life we did not know that adding just a few drops of the wrong thing could completely destroy any chance of goodness in the cookies; they were just about the most awful cookies I have ever had. But it is amazing how just a small dose of the right, or wrong, thing can change the outcome of any circumstance. For example, just a tiny trickle of complaining can implode the best of intentions. 

Luckily, the opposite is true as well; just a small amount of “God” in any situation can change lemons in to vanilla. All we have to do is invite Him; we can count on God to allow good to come out of anything, faithfully working for our best interest every time.

^“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28

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