Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.”

I made waffles for breakfast, but since waffles are not a standard part of my small repertoire of food, I had to look up the recipe for making them. I gathered the ingredients and then I rummaged around and found the waffle iron. I looked over the iron and began trying to decipher how to use it. Obviously I plugged the iron into the wall, but I had to find the on/off switch. I couldn’t find the switch, but I did find the temperature dial. I could chose between light, medium, and dark. The machine seemed to be on whenever it was plugged into the outlet. There was a light on the machine, but did the light mean that the iron was on? Did it mean the iron was ready? Or did it mean that the waffle was done? I assumed that light came on when you lowered the lid of the waffle iron, and when the light went off, the waffle was ready.

I could have made a pancake batter, and just used that for my waffle batter, but no, I wanted to do things correctly. I read through the recipe and began mixing the ingredients. It could have been easy to take what I knew of pancakes and use that, but then I could have ruined the recipe. Noticing the various ingredients and their measures, I began to wonder if these waffles would taste okay or not, but I had to trust in the writer of the recipe and in their knowledge.

The batter was ready and the waffle iron was hot. I turned the dial to ‘medium’ and poured the batter in. I closed the lid, and noticed that the light was on. I waited.

I waited for two and a half minutes, and the light still had not gone out. I cracked open the lid of the waffle iron, and the waffle looked good, so I revised my guess, the waffle iron light seemed to just show that the waffle iron was on. I pulled out the limp waffle and wondered if I had followed the recipe correctly. I put the finished waffle on a plate and began cooking the next waffle. While I waited for the second waffle to be done, I tried the first waffle. It was gooey on the inside – it was not fully cooked! I was distracted by this and when I finally looked at the waffle iron, I noticed that the light had gone off. I opened the waffle iron and removed the nice, crisp waffle. I cut into it and saw that it was good.

I did not trust what I thought I new. I did not trust the recipe as I should, and I did not trust the waffle iron and what common sense had told me. I tried to rush things, and just ended up ruining a waffle. Fortunately, a waffle is not a life. Fortunately, God allows us to make mistakes and then he will graciously re-bake us. We just have to wait, have patience, and trust God to know what He is doing.

Trusting God is often difficult. Often times, it seems that we wait overlong and things just seem to be getting hotter and hotter. It takes the master chef too cook a masterpiece meal, it takes the master surveyor to plot a straight road, it takes the master architect to build a building, and it takes the Master of Creation to know what is best for all creation. Let us trust God in everything, large and small, and look for His advice in everything. If we do so, then things will end up well according to His design and plan.

Trust under every condition
Till thou shalt reach thy home;
Trust, till in perfect fruition
That which is real hath come.