Two cooks can place the same ingredients in identical pots, cook over the same type of heat, and yet produce very different results. One will be a chef’s delight, and the other will be a blight to culinary excellence.
What makes the difference? The ingredients? No, for they are the same. The heat? Not when they are identical.
It is the chef that makes all the difference, and when God stirs the pot, he creates a Chef’s Delight.
Cyrus was one of the great kings of antiquity. His full title was the Great King, King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, and King of the Four Corners of the World.
Yet, in all his magnificence, Cyrus did not know God. However, God knew Cyrus, and that made all the difference. When God stirs a pot, he stirs whom he will to do wonderful and magnificent things for him.
2 Chronicles 36:22-23 tells of the Master Chef at work.
“The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia.”
God had a meal to prepare, and he knew what ingredients he needed. Add one great king with the power to do anything he wished, including commanding all the known world to accede to his demands, and the results would be nothing short of culinary excellence.
What did God need Cyrus to do? It was Cyrus who had the authority and resources to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. It was Cyrus who had the power to release the Israelites to freely return to their homeland. It was Cyrus whom God needed to complete his plan.
Cyrus thought he was a great king, but in reality, he was one ingredient in the pot of the Great King, ready to be stirred into action for the cause of the Lord.
When we face frustration, and it seems that our world tilts further and further out of kilter, just remember, when God stirs our situation, even those who don’t know him as savior and king are still ingredients in his pot, and they will be instrumental in turning our poor situation into a Chef’s Delight.
No matter how bad the ingredients of our life, it is God who stirs the pot. He is the Master Chef, and he creates good things for those that love him.
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