Chili season for me is coming soon. I like a good pot of chili when the weather starts to get a little cooler. I am guessing there are probably a thousand or more ways of making chili, each cook has their own way of cooking it.
Chili is sure good but there is another type of chili that isn’t so good and it can spread over the land like wildfire. Are we chilly with one another? Are we growing more chilly with one another? I had a guy walk across the street to the other side once when he seen me coming. Maybe I deserved it, don’t really know, didn’t seem like I did.
Because of sin we can even seem cordial and friendly to some extent and still be quite chilly due to something in the past that hurt immensely. I don’t downplay past hurts, they need healing. Maybe the other person doesn’t deserve your kindness but the cold hard fact of life is we don’t deserve the kindness God has shown us.
Hanging onto chilly just brings us down, it is like a tiny termite who takes a bite daily out of our foundation and someday can bring the house down. We know hurt real good but we don’t know what Jesus has truly done for us. Talk about a miracle, talk about amazing grace, talk about sacrificing love, talk about being clean from the past, that is all woven into one word, JESUS. Life isn’t fair, never will be, we aren’t always fair, good thing JESUS isn’t fair, He gave us everything and we just give HIM our dung, all because He has a love for us that we cannot comprehend! READ HIS LOVING WORD!