A true chef can create a visual masterpiece with little more than what grows just outside his door and one very sharp knife. It’s how he slices the ingredients that makes all the difference. The best meals have both masterful preparation and come with outstanding presentation.
The ordinary cook throws a wiener on the grill, and it cooks up sizzling and brown, and we enjoy our hotdog. A chef, though, does more. Angle that knife, put a half dozen slashes in each side, and that wiener becomes a visual feast. It also cooks up differently, absorbing flavor from the fire that we never expected to taste. Sprinkle on a specialty cheese, drizzle with exotic mustard, and our hotdog has become a masterpiece.
All our foods are the same, from the simple sandwich to brisket on the barbecue. How we slice up our meal makes it fit for a king or an unappetizing mush.
God is the Master Chef. He wields the spiritual blade that creates culinary quality that no other cook can hope to emulate. And he does it all while working on us.
Hebrews 4:12 describes the word of God as living and active, as being sharper than a two-edged sword, as dividing our soul and spirit, and as able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
The Master Chef is preparing us for presentation to the entire world. He is slicing away that which will detract, and he is opening us up for the most flavorful offering he can make to a lost and hurting world.
John 14:6 reminds us of why we must be prepared by God’s own hand, for no one comes to the Father except through Jesus.
All other methods of salvation, whether emotional, financial, or spiritual, must be sliced off and cast aside before we are fit to be offered to a hungry world.
1 Peter 1:23 assures us that the outcome will be fantastic, for through the culinary expertise of the Almighty Father, we have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of a seed that shall never decay, never be consumed, and that will exist with him in Glory for the rest of time.
So, let’s think back to that humble wiener. It thinks it’s complete, all meaty and juicy, and if it jumps on the grill, it will be the best thing anyone has ever tasted.
However, it is when it’s sliced and it absorbs the flavor of the fire that it becomes perfect in every way.
We are that humble wiener, and when God slices on us, we need to absorb more of him. That’s what gives us the juicy spiritual flavor the world will find appealing, and they will desire to know more of the Christ who has made us his own.
When God slices and dices our lives, he makes us perfect before the world.
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