Pastor’s Pen

Beloved, years ago a food processing plant decided to manufacture a cake mix that all you had to do was add water to the mix, bake it and you have a cake. Unfortunately, it never sold. Homemakers did not believe that it was real. It can’t be that easy, can it?
 So, the food processing giant was stuck with thousands of unsold instant cake mixes. Fortunately, one of their product managers said, “Why don’t we make a cake mix where the consumer has to add something to it to make it work, like an egg or something? And that they did. They made a cake mix that required you to add an egg to make it work.
 They marketed the product, and the cake mixes were flying off the shelves. Why? Because people wanted to add some work to the mix. That is what happens when we try to add to the Work of Christ. We call it legalism. The Gnostics were good at this. Religion is good at this. Don’t fall for it. It doesn’t help.

Blessings-
Pastor Joe