IS YOUR NOSE GROWING?

Do you ever exaggerate the truth in order to get your point across?  Take for instance,  the other night I was sitting in my chair, and out of the corner of my eye I see this quick movement.   I looked and saw a huge spider!  I was just about to give him a big headache, when he takes off into the furnace duct.  The next day I was describing this "close encounter of the third kind" to my husband and said to him "The spider was as big as a saucer!"

Such was the case of the Israelites in Deuteronomy 1:27.  Moses tells us that when the people chose to rebel against the Lord they said things like "the Lord hates us" (Deut. 1:27) "the cities are large with walls up to the sky!" (Deut. 1:28)  Seriously, up to the sky?  Who but God could build a wall that high?  Quite an exaggeration huh?  Bottom line was...the Israelites lacked the faith to trust God. Just as we all do sometimes!  But good old Moses tries to calm their fears in these three ways:

1.  He reminds them that the battle is not theirs, it is the Lord's.  (Deut. 1:30, "The Lord your God is going before you,  He will fight for you"
2. He reminds them of their past victories. (Deut 1:30, "as He did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert."
3. He reminds them of God's faithfulness to them. (Deut. 1:31, "There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."

My mentoring challenge for us today is this:  If we sometimes feel the walls in our life are literally up to the sky, then perhaps these words from Moses will comfort our fears.  We must remember God is for us!  Romans 8:31,32 says: "If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare His own Son but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?"  We should think on the ways God has met our needs in the past then if we do both these things, we will discover He has, and will be, faithful to you.  

Oh, and by the way, just so you know, that spider WAS as big as a saucer!

I'm sharing my "No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie" recipe.  It is a family favorite (especially my husband's).  Come to think of it, I bet he is loving this blog because I keep pulling out and making his favorites once again.

You know it is a old one when it is yellowed like this one.  It is not even my handwriting so I don't know where it came from.  But it is a great one and that is no exaggeration!

NO BAKE CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

2 cups sugar

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup cocoa

1/2 cup milk

Mix ingredients together and boil in a pan over the store. 

 After mixture begins a rolling boil, keep boiling for 1 more minute.

Remove from heat.  Add 1/2 cup peanut butter and 1 tsp. vanilla.  Stir until peanut butter melts.  Mix in 2 cups rolled quick oats and drop onto a sheet of waxed paper.  If you want a almond joy kind of taste you could add a little coconut.