Willing and Obedient

"If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land."  Isaiah 1:19

No matter how hard I try, my 8 year old son Timothy is a far better baker than I.  My friends could tell you, nothing I bake is edible because it always tastes like baking soda... even when I don't put baking soda in the recipe...

A few weeks ago, when Timothy was wrist-deep in cookie dough, I pressed him for advice.

"I follow the recipe--EXACTLY," he said.  "Do you?"

"Not quite," I hedged, recalling the many liberties I take with cook-books.  Watching him roll bits of dough painstakingly between his hands, I explained that I usually plopped the dough haphazardly on the cookie sheet with a spoon.  "it's faster and easier that way."

"Faster and easier doesn't make it right mom," was his stern reply..."There are rules---" he began.

Just then, a loud buzz from the timer interrupted his lecture.  He opened the oven and stuck a toothpick into the top of a cookie.  "PERFECT," he announced.


Carefully, he peeled off two large snowly spheres with a spatula and put them on to the cookie rack.  My mouth watered as I watched him bite into a fragrant, perfectly baked snickerdoodle.

"AHHHHHH," he sighed, "worth waiting for!"

Thank you Lord for Timothy. You used him to remind me when I grow impatient, its the obedient who earn a place at your table! I'm astonished at how often you use our children to teach me your perfection.