This week, the devotions will come from Denise’s devotional “Biscuits and Gravy”
We all love biscuits and gravy, especially when we’re from the south. Think about it for a minute. Biscuits – our foundation, spiritually speaking, that’s when we give our heart to Jesus. That is when we realize we love and need Him. We ask Him to forgive our sins and He comes in and does a new work and we are made new. Who wants just a plain biscuit? What I’m talking about is when you want more than just salvation, you desire to go deeper?
When we get some fresh hot biscuits, you don’t just want a plain biscuit. We like to add a little bit of butter, jelly, or honey.
You want to get all that He has. Sometimes the sweet isn’t enough to satisfy. It is a new level, but He still has more for us. That’s when we add the gravy, gravy is good, it just feels like our plate is overflowing.
Growing up, my aunt Ruby made the best biscuits and gravy, and nobody has been able to master that since she passed away. I mean, we make some good biscuits and gravy because we’re Southern. I think when Aunt Ruby made her biscuits and gravy, she did it with such love. I think love was her secret.
I think in a lot of southern cooking love is the key. We love big and we love hard.
I think this opens our heart up to be broken and hurt. I think that that takes us to places where it’s hard.
I love the saying, “ if we mind our biscuits life will be gravy,” but sometimes you need to mind your biscuits.
Other times you just get in some people’s biscuits you know, so that you can share with them what is on your heart. God may have given you a word for them.
God is telling you something, so you pour that gravy over that biscuit for them. So that they will know the goodness that God has for them; so many times, we settle for a little bit of God, when he’s got the whole thing for us, not just a taste.
God wants us to be overflowing, so many times we don’t allow him to because we have too much junk cluttering up our biscuits. When my kids were young, I used to joke with my kids and tell them I was going to butter their biscuits.
People find that funny, but more kids today need their biscuits buttered.
Reflection:
Has the Holy Spirit placed someone on your heart to minister to or to “pour gravy over their biscuits” or even the tough love conversations or to “butter their biscuits” or maybe you are the one that someone has just loved on with either their gravy or their butter. Thank the Lord today for that person.
