Deviled Eggs?

When I think about life sometimes. I think of deviled eggs. Funny, right? Bear with me here. 

  Before being put in hot water the eggs are fresh, versatile, they can be used to make just about anything.  Then we move away from God or out of a situation He put us in to strengthen us and we find ourselves in hot water so to speak. We start to toughen up, we are no longer as versatile or pliable as we started out. Then Our hearts are hardened because of the sin. Until we are cooked! It doesn't take long to callous our hearts toward the things of God or to rearrange our lives from what God intended to what we want.  Wow, that was fast! How did we get here? Why didn't we just follow His plan? All of this damage we caused cannot be reversed, cannot be undone. 

The hard shell has to be chipped away. Our yolk (heart) has changed. We could have been just about anything we ever wanted (anything He ever wanted) but no we had to get into the hot water. God has to cut us down the middle and scoop out our heart (yolk), we have to repent, turn away from our sin and our own will. This is a painful but necessary process to restore our fellowship with our Father.

 1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 4:10 - Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

 He then has to soften us, with the oil of His word and the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Then God adds salt to enhance our flavor. Then HE puts HIS handiwork into the empty hole inside us, for us to be presentable again. And now we are fuller than we ever dreamed. He has taken what we made into a mess and made us beautiful. 

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. ~2 Corinthians 5:17

We look good on the plate because we have allowed the Great Physician to heal us through repentance and the desire to do God's will according to His Word. No matter how tough or cracked our shell was He was able to reconcile us to Himself  because we surrendered fully to His plan. We can never go backwards and be completely fresh and pliable again but God wasn't taken by surprise and still worked all things for our good. We made it to the plate...

Psalms 50:15 -  
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.