home
radioTransformation is in the mixing and baking!
As I am in the kitchen baking, I notice how all these different ingredients look pretty disgusting when first mixed together but yet when baked they turn into a wonderful masterpiece, a soft delicate Victoria sponge cake or a mouth watering Lemon Drizzle Cake. It doesn't take a Delia Smith to know that once you have baked a cake, those baked ingredients can never again be split into the separate ingredients that they once were. They have undergone serious development, irreversible change and after a bit of mixing, a lot of heat and a bit of time it has turned into something quite mouth watering, even if I do say so myself!
As if you have not noticed, our lives are also made up of different
ingredients. This time God is the baker. He starts with life then adds
experiences into the bowl: the hard ones and the happy ones. Pouring
in regrets, achievements sprinkled with tears, laughter and perhaps
confusion as to how all this can mix well together to be transformed
into something new and holy and without fault! But God being the baker
knows exactly what He is making and He won't stop until He is
satisfied with the end sweet delight. He is faithful to complete the
work he has begun in us. He sees you right now as transformed because
of what Jesus has done for you when he died on the Cross. He sees you
as holy, blameless and without fault and seated at the right hand of
the Father. However, God is also working this transformation out in
your life now in all that you do. It is God who is preparing you,
shaping, mixing and moulding you through the rough times in order to
produce something of your life that you would never be able to make
yourself, this cake is beyond your imagination! Don't be surprised if
things get a little hot and the pressure increases in life for this is
transformation and you have to remember that the very essence, the
very centre of God is nothing but goodness and love for you. He is
always faithful, loving and caring no matter how much you get stirred
in the mixing bowl of life. God knows that in order to produce a
wonderful, perfect outcome, he knows the ingredients to add, how to
mix them and how long each part of the process should last i.e. how
long we are in the furnace! So don't despair! Trust God and begin to
see what God sees when he looks at you. A wonderful, tasty
masterpiece! 
Tina grew up in Manchester before moving to Bristol to attend an Artist Development and Training course with NGM (New Generation Music), where she trained in dance, vocals and communication. After finishing this intensive year, Tina joined Innervation Trust as a member of the first ever Collective schools band. For two years she worked as a singer/dancer/communicator in the schools of Liverpool, eventually becoming team leader. Now living in Manchester, Tina at present is the choreographer for Innervation Trust and a backing dancer for one of their bands 
Comment
Bookmark
Tell a friend
Print version
Thanks, Tina, for this analogy. We all need to know that God is the Baker and in charge of us. Otherwise the mixing, heating and pressure would be too much.
You really encouraged me with this article!
love and miss you, T
Mary