Have you ever made a pie?
I’m not talking about a premade, frozen one. Try a fresh crust, with filling you mix by hand, and a top crust you must trim with a knife.
Yeah, that sort. Have you ever cooked one like that?
Each ingredient is important, and it costs us. We must spend of our resources to assemble that pie.
Do we toss the trimmed-off crust in the garbage? The pieces we slice away, do we consider them worthless? Or do we save them up and find another way to use them?
That may seem trite. It’s only a little piece of dough, we say, but let’s look at John 6:12.
“And when they had eaten their fill, [Jesus} told his disciples, ‘Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.’ ”
Gather up the fragments. The little pieces. The parts others might toss in the garbage. Collect it all.
Why did Jesus say this? The people weren’t hungry any longer. They’d had their fill. What need had they of the bits that were left over?
Here’s the lesson we’re to learn. We are to use wisely what God has blessed us with. Money . . . time . . . a large home . . . musical talent . . . whatever it is, we can’t waste what we’ve received from God.
Those scraps from that pie? They are small in the grand scheme of things, and if you toss them, no one will notice or care. Scraps from your blessing from God, that’s a different story.
God gives us each blessing to use for his glory. Let’s choose wisely.
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