Eggs in a basket

Eggs in a basket
We are all probably familiar with the adage, “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.” The idea being that it is unwise to put all the delicate eggs into only one container and risk harm coming to all of them if a mishap were to occur. Therefore one should place their eggs in multiple locations so if anything were to happen to any of the various baskets you still had multiple other baskets with eggs that were safe. This is probably best applied to investment strategies rather than dating or marriages. (I guess some Mormons think otherwise)

During worship in the Friday night service we were singing a song with these lyrics, “I love you, all of my hope is in You. Jesus Christ take my life, take all of me.” As I was singing this with all my heart, I had to grab my notepad and write this:

Lord I put all my eggs in Your basket, all of my hopes, all of my dreams, my fears, issues, joys and heartaches—all of me. Lord, I put all of me in Your basket and give it all to you. I put all my trust and faith in You alone to carry me onward. Please carry me up and on and into You, completely and wholly. Take me Lord and accept my feeble offering of myself and all that is me. Let me be a sacrifice and become a burnt offering for You and to your glory alone. Please take me Lord and accept me, cleanse me and make me new. Please take my basket and burn it all up and turn it into something new, something new and righteous in you.

So I started thinking if the Lord did burn up my basket with all my eggs inside it the heat would transform my rotten eggs into hard boiled or fried eggs. I hate egg salad, well as much as someone can hate something they have never tried and have no wish to try. But I told God that I was willing to be egg salad for Him if that is what He wants to turn me into. Hey, I have been a lot worse. So please Lord, whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever, and however please use us Lord. Take us and use us for your glory and to further Your kingdom, Oh great and mighty God. I am willing and help me be more willing and more obedient in every way, everyday!

As usual, God has impeccable timing because Terry Virgo's message after worship was all about “Living by faith, keep happy by faith, put God first and believe in Him. Do demonstrations of faith, step into faith and believe, believe in God.” So give God your basket. Toss all your eggs in it and maybe He will make you into over easy, scrambled, hard boiled or a lovely frittata. Leap into it in faith and with faith by believing in God that He can, will and shall use you for good!

~C.H. Spurgeon “Go in for great things, brethren, in the Name of God; risk everything on His promise, and according to your faith shall it be done unto you.”~

Romans 4:3-25 (randomly abbreviated)
(4:3) "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
(13)It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. (16) Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. (17) As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
(4:18-25) Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead.
Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

I highly recommend listening to Terry Virgo's on 5/30/08 message via podcast on
http://www.christianfellowship.com/resources/sermons.php

Heaven helped me 5/31/08
Love Always,
A*