Mud Pies and My Obsession with Them

I am obsessed lately with mud pies. I feel like Bubba on Forest Gump talking about shrimp, but for me it is mud pies. This theme of mud pies keeps popping up in my mind. I loved making mud pies when I was little. I could not wait to go dig in the dirt and get my tiny pans out and put mud in them and wait until the afternoon or next day, depending on the weather for them to cook in the sun and dry. There are so many things that God has been teaching me but for some reason I just cannot get mud pies out of my head. They relate to my life in so many ways.

The first thought about mud pies: Mud pies can symbolize our creativity and the blessing of fun on earth that God gives us. It is simply fun to get dirty-well for some of us. It is beneficial to let go and create, mold and make. It is fun to put everything else aside and work on a mud pie or as adults we would call it a project.

The second thing:
Life is like making mud pies because we were not ready for the real thing: it is a time in our lives for God’s preparation of us. (did that make sense-well read on, maybe I can explain myself). When I was little I made mud pies because I was not allowed to make real pies by myself. I was too little to use the oven, and although I knew what basic ingredients went into making a pie or cake, I did not know yet what order to put the ingredients in or how much of each ingredient to use. There was wisdom in my mom not letting me make a pie by myself at that stage of life-I would have burnt the house down. There are times in our lives that we have to sit and grow and learn a bit before we can be allowed to “play with the real stuff”-do what we feel God has placed on our hearts to do. We may be at a stage where it is time to grow so that we can be equipped to “make the real thing” when God calls us to do it.

Another analogy would be a ship sitting in the harbor. You would not think of boarding a ship that is not sea worthy or stocked for a long journey. When you are ready for your journey, you will be thankful for the preparations that were made for the journey. The journey would not be successful without them.

I see things that God has used years before we this point in my life as a preparation for what I would need on this journey. If God had not brought me through certain trials, or fed me in certain areas, or shown me my sin in areas of my life, then I would have packed up and gone home long ago. I also would not have been able to speak into other’s lives in the certain situations, had it not been for God’s preparation. (And those certain people wouldn’t have listened to me either) Life is real and life is hard, ….and life can be full of blessings. We need to take advantage of the opportunities He provides for us to prepare us.
Philippians 1:6 “…being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (NIV)

To find out how mud pies relates to inadequacy, log on tomorrow.