Memorable Pie
I shared yesterday that ‘getting our feet wet’ can be scary and in my summer ‘Playing Card’ themed devotionals I wrote:
“I am following God’s lead, after waiting for so long I finally ‘heard the sound of going in the Mulberry tree’ (2 Samuel 5:24) outside my office window last November and God jokingly said “When it’s time to say goodbye, you’ll be eating Mulberry pie!” I leave work this Autumn, I am so looking forward to ‘eating pie’ - the fruit of obedient waiting, and positioning myself to roll with the unforced rhythms of His grace.’
Well, did the Lord have an ACE up his sleeve for me as I stepped out with no job in sight? Did I eat pie … and why?
On Sunday 1st September my husband and I sat by the river and ate the pie I had baked with the mulberries from the tree outside my old office window - and it tasted darn good! The next day I was to start a new job the Lord had led me to at Ashford Church of England Primary School – affectionately known to the children there as ACE! … the unfolding of the Lord’s plan seemed remarkable.
Why Eat Pie? Often in our fast paced world we can easily forget moments when God has revealed Himself, His faithfulness, His will, or His calling to us in a significant manner. It’s important for us to make time to establish spiritual markers… and God thinks so too.
It always makes me smile recalling how God parted the Red Sea to let the Israelites ‘out’ of Egypt Jordan
‘When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.” Joshua 4:1-3 – [NIV]
Looking back at spiritual markers often gives us a better perspective on what God has done in the past, what he wants to do in the present and His direction for the future.
Ponder some examples in your own life where God has done a mighty work, how have you memorialised it and used it in your relationship with God?
Dawn Milward
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