The fermentation process in our lives
Do you know how when you ferment bread you put the dough in a bowl and cover it with a dishcloth in a dark warm corner of the kitchen?
See, sometimes God calls us to the dark warm corners of our hearts. During the fermentation process, we go into the dark corners of our hearts, but even there we find the warmth of God. Even if dim at times, we know that his presence is a reality there. He does not leave us alone in the dark. He stays there with us, independently of how long it might take.
During the fermentation process, the complex stuff of our lives is decomposed and turned into simpler compositions. We are able to see more clearly. How polarizing this sounds — that in the darkness, where we can see less, we can actually see more clearly, and God makes what was once complex into something simpler.
It is during the fermentation process that God alters us. He makes us more flexible, more elastic — we increase in our ability to hear God and see him.
The decomposition of the complex things of life, also decreases the volume of the many worldly sounds around us that shout for performance, for success, for “the go get it” mentality. Rather, it increases the space for God’s voice, helping us hear him more clearly as the One who transforms us.
In becoming simple and humble, we are filled with God. We mature. We enlarge our capacity to deal with complex things. We are filled up with what is good, pure and pleasing to God.
And in this process, our taste changes. The aromas develop….we become more beautiful in God’s eyes.
The longer we stay in the dark, the more our hearts are formed into smooth extensible ones, full of good properties. The more protein our souls get through the Bread of Life, the faster the proving process is. But the bigger our complexities, the longer we will need to sit with them.
However, the more sugary things we add to it to abstract us from the complex process, the less work we allow God to do in us.
When God calls us to fermentation, he invites into places that will increase our strength, places that will change us in Christ Jesus, and which will stimulate the development of the aroma of Christ in us.
And the time of all this truly varies….but while fermenting, simply rest. Rest in God. You cannot do any of this by your own means. Be careful in this vulnerable time. Take it slow. Do not try to speed up the process.
Once the fermentation is done, your heart will be like the aroma of fresh baked bread, and butter melting, pleasing to sight and eye, to God himself.
See, sometimes God calls us to the dark warm corners of our hearts. During the fermentation process, we go into the dark corners of our hearts, but even there we find the warmth of God. Even if dim at times, we know that his presence is a reality there. He does not leave us alone in the dark. He stays there with us, independently of how long it might take.
During the fermentation process, the complex stuff of our lives is decomposed and turned into simpler compositions. We are able to see more clearly. How polarizing this sounds — that in the darkness, where we can see less, we can actually see more clearly, and God makes what was once complex into something simpler.
It is during the fermentation process that God alters us. He makes us more flexible, more elastic — we increase in our ability to hear God and see him.
The decomposition of the complex things of life, also decreases the volume of the many worldly sounds around us that shout for performance, for success, for “the go get it” mentality. Rather, it increases the space for God’s voice, helping us hear him more clearly as the One who transforms us.
In becoming simple and humble, we are filled with God. We mature. We enlarge our capacity to deal with complex things. We are filled up with what is good, pure and pleasing to God.
And in this process, our taste changes. The aromas develop….we become more beautiful in God’s eyes.
The longer we stay in the dark, the more our hearts are formed into smooth extensible ones, full of good properties. The more protein our souls get through the Bread of Life, the faster the proving process is. But the bigger our complexities, the longer we will need to sit with them.
However, the more sugary things we add to it to abstract us from the complex process, the less work we allow God to do in us.
When God calls us to fermentation, he invites into places that will increase our strength, places that will change us in Christ Jesus, and which will stimulate the development of the aroma of Christ in us.
And the time of all this truly varies….but while fermenting, simply rest. Rest in God. You cannot do any of this by your own means. Be careful in this vulnerable time. Take it slow. Do not try to speed up the process.
Once the fermentation is done, your heart will be like the aroma of fresh baked bread, and butter melting, pleasing to sight and eye, to God himself.
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