Cake with Cream

“Enjoy!” I was told and a cake with cream was set before me.

I was sitting in one of the many restaurants here in Kaitaia having a flat white.

Seeing three other customers at the table next to me eating cake with cream reminded me of a place in Taipa on the east coast where they served apple slices with cream. We have been there sometimes on a fine day for a cup of coffee.

TAIPA: Where they served apple slices with cream

Having never seen cake served with cream here at this place, I was curious to know more and asked the three strangers. I was told of course what I wanted to know and said that I must have cake like that sometimes.

After that I  minded my own business again.

“I find it very difficult to accept things like that,” I could only think of saying when one of the strangers put a just bought cake with cream on my table.

I was told again, “Enjoy!” when the strangers left. And “ENJOY!” the cake I did. (And honestly, I do not really know, when I buy another one.)

And only just before I began writing this it occurred to me that I never thanked the strangers for their kindness.

Reading the word “afflicted” several  times in Psalm 119 made me look up the word in the dictionary and this is what I find in the COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY: It is a condition of great suffering. It says there also that there is physical suffering and that there is mental suffering.

Here are the verses from Psalm 119.

Psalm 119:67: “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.”

The Beach, a good place meditate

Psalm 119:71: “It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.”

Psalm 119:75: “I know, O LORD, that your laws are righteous, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.”

Psalm 119:92: “If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.”

I know for sure that I must read the verses again and again and meditate on them. Will you join me?

The Psalmist says that he is wiser than his enemies, has more insight than all his teachers and more understanding than the elders. He tells us also why that is the case.

Here are his own words. We find them in Psalm 119:98-100:

“Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.

I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.”

It is all because of the word of God.

THE LORD

Psalm 84:11: “For the LORD God is a sun and shield.”

Malachi 4:2: “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.”

Revelation 1:16: “His face was like the sun shining in all  its brilliance.”

“For the LORD God is a sun and shield.” – Psalm 84:11

WE

Matthew 13:43: “Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.”

THE CROSS

“‘No one

Luke 16:13

Intr.:

can serve two masters.

A.  For you will hate one and love the other;

B.  you will be devoted to one and despise the other.

End:

You cannot serve both God and money.'”