The Missing Ingredient

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“All things work together for good to those who love God” – Romans 8:28

I love to cook. Cooking is one of my favorite things that I do each day. When I am in the kitchen making my favorite meal, there are ingredients that are very essential in the process for without them the food would be tasteless. A master chef would tell you, to cook the best meal, one must know what ingredients to add and when to add them. All the ingredients must come together to make the food taste good.

In the same way, God is the Master Chef. He knows the end from the beginning, He knows all the ingredients that we may need, and when to add them and how to add them. When all the ingredients are mixed together, it brings good taste in the end.

Very often we get sour, sad and sometimes angry because of the missing ingredient in our lives. We are no longer patient to wait for all the pieces of the puzzle to come together. There are times when we go through the difficult moments in life when things seem tasteless. A season when even relationships become tasteless, tasteless career or everything seems to be going down. What was once lovely is no longer joyful. This is because there is a missing ingredient in our lives.

Friends, be encouraged. The missing ingredient is coming your way. God is about to add that missing ingredient to make your life tasteful, juicy and lovely once again. What you are going through is only part of the process to make your life better. The heat may be high for you right now, but that’s fine. Once everything are put together and done, you will look back and say: ‘Those difficult moments was worth it’, because you can now taste the sweetness of the reward after the trials.

Don’t go about your day complaining with questions in your mind like: Why me? Why do I have to go through all these things? What did I do to deserve all these mistreatments, or why is life so unfair to me? No. Let go of such negative and victim mentality and have a new perspective about your life. God is only preparing you for something better. With everything that God works on always ends well. If all is not well with you, then you can relax and know God is cooking something good in the kitchen. And soon you will be served with His very best of His work. With every obstacle comes both danger and opportunity. The danger is having a negative mentality. The opportunity is to hope and expect the very best that God is preparing you for.

However much difficult the obstacles may be, don’t give up. Stay in faith and trust that God is working something better for you, for in due time all things will work together for your good. Be hopeful for the good that awaits you.

 

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