God is the mixer, not added to the mix.

The pastor asked an older farmer to pray before the meal, “Lord, I hate buttermilk.” Without skipping a beat, he added, “Lord, I don’t much like lard either.”

The pastor’s eyebrows raised at that point. He looked around the room to see others were starting to get uncomfortable with where this prayer might be going as well.

Yet the farmer kept on praying, “And Lord, you know I don’t care much for raw white flour either.” Now everyone’s eyebrows were raised!

Finally, the farmer ended with, “But Lord, when you mix them all together and bake them, I sure do love warm fresh biscuits. So, Lord, when things come up that I don’t like, when life gets hard, when I don’t understand what is going on, help me to relax and wait until You’re done mixing. It will probably be much better than biscuits. Amen.”

We don’t always get to choose the circumstances in which we find ourselves. And we certainly don’t always understand the “why” at the moment either. Job sure didn’t!

Yet, our Father does. He takes all the sounds produced by the musicians and mixes them into a sweet-sounding song that will bless your socks off.

He can even take the sounds you wouldn’t necessarily buy the record and mix them into a work of art – being more like Jesus. (Romans 8:28) A record, you will literally cherish for eternity!

So, when you don’t understand what in the world is going on in your life, slow your jets. Be still and know your God. The Mixer is still working on the work of art – you.