Is It The Cooking?

Harry Truman, while a congressman, supposedly said it when receiving complaints about the pace he was setting with his investigating committee. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Probably, this expression came from the time before homes were climate-controlled, and kitchens could become brutally hot, especially in the summers. The gist of the saying is that if you can’t deal with the pressures and difficulties of the task in which you’re engaged, you should, rather than complaining, leave it to others. In years past, I have piously and condemningly said this of others who complained about the difficulty of their endeavors. Then, experience taught me something: Sometimes it isn’t that you can’t take the heat of the kitchen; it’s that no one likes what you’re cooking. Now, if folks don’t like your cooking, maybe it IS your cooking. Or, maybe it’s their appetite. Doing ministry, I am willing to admit, sometimes it is my cooking. One thing for sure, looking at today’s worship and word as a table Christ has prepared and spread, if I find it unappealing, undesirable, it won’t be His cooking. It must be my appetite.

Is It The Cooking?

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