The Bible On Trial

Plum Galette~

Have you ever noticed that the first time you try to make a recipe it does not look like the picture of the recipe in the cook book? This happens to me every time I try something new, as was my experience this week when I made a Plum Galette for the first time. It is not really a complex recipe if you have already learned how to make a single crust pie. The most difficult thing for me was cutting the plums to look as uniform as the picture on the web site where I found the recipe. The plums I was given were wonderful, but not as firm as the ones in the picture, so the end product was more of a plum slurry than individually place pieces. The other thing was that the picture showed the Galette with a beautiful and manicured scalloped top that had a lovely 2 inch edge over the filling. Mine was sort of hodge-podge. Still goood flavor, but nothing to write home about. Today is my second attempt, and I have two Plum Galettes in the oven as I write, getting them ready for the radio program. These turned out much better than my first attempt. Experience and practice makes all the difference.

Learning righteousness is just like making a recipe for the first time, not the best result. But as you learn more and keep practicing the Truth, learning righteousness gets easier, and you become more competent at doing it. Jesus told Nicodemus:

Joh 3:21  "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."

In order to become Righteous IN FACT we must first understand that it is not only possible to accomplish, but necessary to salvations and eternal life. We must get into the kitchen and learn how to do the recipe. Only then will righteousness become real.