The Cream of the Crop!
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Written by Danny Bunn,B.A. (Born-Again believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ)
Chapter 33
The Cream of the Crop
"You know honey, when I was living at home on the farm. Pop
would come into the house at different times with a piece of
fruit or some vegetable that he has grown. I remember one time
when he had an apple in his hand, he ran up to us and said, 'Look
at that beauty. No flaws or blemishes, beautiful. Nice shiny red,
round and plump. It even glistens in the sunlight.' Honey, you
could see on his face how proud he was of that piece of fruit. Do
you know what he said next? 'This is the cream of the crop.'" I
think about that at times since I have been walking with Jesus
and experienced his blessing, his chastisement, his watchcare,
his provision. He has never lost sight of us over the years
honey, he has been faithful to his most holy word. We have missed
him at times, disobeyed him, got angry at him and just all around
missed the mark at times but he has always been there to pick us
up when we fell. He glistens in the sunlight when we have eyes to
see. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending.
He is the altogether lovely one. He is the Prince of Peace. Our
Pride and our Joy. He is the Answer with all the answers as he
has shown so many times before. Honey, he is the Cream of the
crop. Not only that, he is the one who has planted his seed in
our hearts, who has fed us, nourished us, who has pruned us, who
has harvested us, he is the one who has created all things and
yet he is the Cream of the crop. What is the strange thing about
this is, he takes us as we are and makes us something that we
could never be in ourselves. He is working in and on us to be the
cream of the crop down here since we are saved to be conformed to
his image. He wants us to walk like he walked.
Postscript: Cindy and Joe met many more trials, tribulations,
failures, as well as victories, blessings, and so many other
things tied up in a life submitted to obedience to the one true
God. They had picked up their cross and they had no desire to lay
it down, the life that they were experiencing was the best that
they could have imagined. To know the Creator in such an intimate
way was the one thing that they always craved and they didn't
even know it for a long time. Not until they met the Lord of
life, then they knew what had always been missing, the vacuum was
filled with the only one who could truly fill it. Jesus did not
say that the struggles, the heartaches, the confusion, the
doubts, the hurts, the over all pain would go completely away, he
did say that he would be with them to take them through it. Even
through the valley of the shadow of death, he would be there. For
the valley to have a shadow, there has to be a light there and
Jesus is that Light, the Light of the world. Even death would not
be a fear for them, for they knew the Creator of life itself.
Since he died and rose again, they knew that they too would one
day die to rise to be in his presence forever.
Comment: We are either on the road to life or the road to death.
Jesus has shown us that there are two roads. Many follow the wide road
to death and destruction but few take the narrow road to life.
God sets it before us and he lets us choose which one. The narrow
road is walked on by receiving Jesus, the wide road is
accomplished by rejecting him. He gives us the faith to receive,
the courage to stand, and the will to go on but we have a choice
and that choice is a real choice. God is not playing games with
us. He means what he says. He sets the captives free and he does
so by his word going forth, either through the preaching,
proclamation of his truth, by the prayers of his saints, in
written form, and other ways but he is drawing people to himself
by his people being led by his Spirit. Jesus is coming soon for
his own. Are you ready?
