The picture to the left is a real time photograph of the inside of our office refrigerator. It may look familiar to some of you. Many of us have learned the hard way that there is a limit to the number hard boiled eggs you can force down your throat on Easter.
This is not a problem for me because I LOVE LEFTOVERS! For me, eating leftovers is a moral imperative. It’s a rescue mission of special forces proportion. I am making it my business to be sure those eggs in the office fridge fulfill the purpose for which they were created.
I still shudder when I think of a tragic experience I had last week. I pulled a small ziplock baggie from the back of the office fridge and gazed upon a food product that had literally become unrecognizable.
At first glance I thought it had been decorated with some sort of frosting on the top, but after closer examination I realized that the intricate “decoration” had grown organically on this tasty little treat. It was a sad day.
Some people see leftovers as second class citizens in the culinary universe. I see redemption.
I experience a special kind of joy when I eat a leftover (and when I say “special” I am referring to the “read to me slow” kind of special). Especially a leftover from a restaurant.
If you throw away leftovers from a restaurant you have wasted the time and effort of the person who prepared the food AND you waste the time and effort you expended earning the money you paid for the food. Eating leftovers from a restaurant counts as a double redemption!
Right about now you’re trying to figure out if I’m funny… or disturbed (and when I say “disturbed” I am referring to the “clinically diagnosed” kind of disturbed).
Laugh if you must, but this is one of the rare times my “uniqueness” is a reflection of God’s character.
God loves leftovers too! You and I are the proof of that. He created us perfectly, but we have all “left God’s paths to follow our own.” – Isaiah 53:6
Have you ever really consider the holiness of God? Do you realize that even the very best goodness you can muster is seen by God as puss infested, leprous rags (see Isaiah 64:6)?
Do we recognize that we’re all just a putrid, mold covered leftover in the back of God’s refrigerator? God should have asked the newest Angel intern to suck it up, hold his nose and toss us in the dumpster. But God loves leftovers.
So what did He do? God ingested all of putrid, moldy, vomitous sin that that we had become. He cleansed us and made us new and beautiful and a reflection of his image once again.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. – 2 Corinthians 5:21
Don’t you love, that God loves leftovers?
CLICK HERE for 17 new ways to redeem your Easter Egg leftovers as an act of worship.
