worthless as a half-baked cake!

What a strange thing to say "Worthless as a half-baked cake" - and yet that is how God sees us if we do not give him everything we have.

Cooking is not one of my strong points.  Especially cooking cakes leaves me in total bewilderment.

How could you ever add all those odd ingredients together, none even resembling the other, mix it all around until it looks like a disgusting mess, throw it into a pan - sometimes with paper of all things on the bottom put it in a red hot oven  and leave it there for an X amount of time.

It never ceases to amaze me that out of the oven comes this cake - it miraculous!! - Well it is to me anyway.

God says in Hosea chapter 7:8 that the people of Israel mingled with foreigners, obviously destroying their close relationship with Him and in so doing became as "worthless as a half baked cake".

A half baked cake would be useless - it would still resemble the gooy mess in the pan that went into the oven in the first place.

What does your life resemble? - You know we can put on an appearance of superiority- of holiness - we can go off to church resembling a Christian - we can talk the talk and walk the walk - we can act like christian, we can talk like a christian - we can look like a christian - but if God hasn't got full control of our lives - we are as 'worthless as a half-baked cake'.

As a "Christian' we can be a true saint in public - doing all the right things - going to all the right places - being seen by people as doing the right thing.

But the saint in public is usually a Devil in private - Spurgeon once said of a Christian like that, that "They deal in flour by day and soot in night".

In James 1:8 it says that a "double minded man" is unstable in all that he does."

Double minded! - pretending in one world living in another - They divide their loyalty between God and other things - they are inconsistant, unstable and unsettled.

They have one foot in Christianity and one foot in the world - a half baked cake and pretty worthless to God.

They are uncertain about God and I'm pretty sure uncertain about life wavering between the two worlds - partly believing in God and partly disbelieving - they lack certainty in their lives and certainly have no decided purpose.

Both their spiritual life and secular life must be chaotic to say the least.

How are we shaping up with all things considered?

Do you look to God for your resources through your faith in Him? or do you flounder along like a ship without a rudder trying to serve two masters.

In Psalm 12:2 David says "With flattering lips and a double heart they speak"

It is well time we settled our convictions! the longer we wait the more power we lose in our Christian life.

We can't please God and the world - Let's get a grip on our faith and our Christian life. True faith does not operate with open options - God's got everything or He has nothing.

Are you as 'worthless as a half baked cake'? - don't let any opposing desires rip you apart spiritually - Give it all to God today.