Cake Bake-Off Mishap

“A men’s cake bake-off – that’s what we will do for a Sundaynight fellowship,” decided my pastor-husband Steve as he was working on the church calendar for the upcoming months. The event was announced many weeks in advance. Each man had participated in good-natured teasing and bragging about how great his cake would be and how he planned to take first prize.

This bantering had gone on for two weeks before the eventful night. Steve had emphasized there was to be absolutely no help from wives; this was strictly to be the men’s endeavors in this competition.

Because he had promoted the event and had participated in the teasing, Steve wanted his cake to be something special. Afraid that I would offer more suggestions than he wanted, he encouraged me to go shopping on Saturday afternoon while he baked his cake. After staying gone most of the afternoon, I returned, knowing I had given him more than ample time to complete his project. I anticipated smelling the aroma of a freshly baked cake when I entered the house; that didn’t happen. Instead, when I entered the kitchen, I found a frustrated, perspiring husband with the mixer’s beaters in one hand and the electric knife handle in the other, trying his best to insert the mixer’s beaters into the knife handle.

He confessed, “I didn’t want to have to ask you for any help, but as hard as I’ve tried, I can’t get these beaters to go in. I’ve jabbed and pushed them in every direction and pushed every button I can find.”

“Could the problem possibly be that you are trying to put the beaters in the electric knife handle?” I smugly joked.

After showing him how to insert the beaters into the proper appliance, I left him to his baking. I guess the old adage, “All’s well that ends well,” held true in that case. He took first place in creativity the next night.

As hard as Steve tried, he couldn’t make a knife be converted into a mixer, but with God, all things are possible. On one occasion God’s miraculous intervention caused a staff to become a snake. When Moses was eighty and Aaron, eighty-three, God commissioned them to deliver His people out of the hands of Pharaoh. This was one in a series of miracles the Lord instructed them to perform to try to persuade Pharaoh to free the Israelites before the Lord laid His hand against Egypt.

God performs miracles in the lives of believers still today;the problem is we fail to recognize them as such. We tend to give credit to everything else before acknowledging it was God’s intervention that solved a problem.

Exodus 7:12 says, Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Read all about this miraculous event in Exodus 7: 8–13. Pray that God will open your eyes to the miracles he performs daily in your life.