I got a stove top griddle for Christmas last year. It covers two burners, and as there’s a bridge element between those burners it makes for an nice, evenly heated cooking area. I’m no chef, but I’ve made smashburgers, eggs and bacon, and grilled a few vegetables. Best of all, the griddle rolls out great pancakes.
We do blueberry pancakes, banana pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, whatever strikes us. The batter goes on the griddle, browns on one side, and then the all important flip. A broad griddle gives room to turn the pancake over quickly and decisively. Then butter and syrup and breakfast bliss.
Visions of flapjacks flooded my head with I came across this line from the book of Hosea: Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
The prophet Hosea castigates the nation and leaders of Israel for their active rebellion against the Lord. He points out their sin of worshipping the gods of the lands around them, of abandoning Jehovah to chase after demonic entities promising riches and power and sex and all their heart’s desires.
Hosea underscores the futility of their pursuits. A cake burned on one side and raw on the other is fit only for the trash. So goes Ephraim and the rest of the nation of Israel, growing old and gray and feeble while failing to notice their slide to irrelevance.
Don’t go off half-baked. Follow the Lord. Take in the Bible and talk with God throughout the day. Flip your pancake, and enjoy the Lord’s goodness all the days of your life.
Hosea 7:8
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